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[ElektorFormant] Re: osc output bleed

2008-05-08 by Gerard Bik

That's a good suggestion. Electrolytics deteriorate with age.
I had to replace every Tantalum condensor in my vocoder. All dead.

GB


>--- In ElektorFormant@yahoogroups.com, "the19thbear" <the19thbear@...>
>wrote:
>>
>> hi. i have a formant that i'm slowly bringing back to life. i have 2
>> oscillators and they are working now ( though one of them is quite
>> unstable) I have got a bad case of bleed to the output from all the
>> waveforms even though they are switched off. so if i switch off all
>> the waveforms and connect a headphone to the osc out, i can still hear
>> the waveforms ( a lot lower though) could this have anything to do
>> with the power supply? it doesnt have a ground plug... ( not using the
>> original elektor psu) or maybe something else is wrong.. any
>suggestions?
>> thanks!
>>
>
>Have you replaced all the ageing electrolytics, especially the power
>supply decoupling ones?
>
>Mike
>
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