Cgs synth

What you are doing sounds correct.

Check to see that a solder pad on the PCB hasn't lifted and that none of the
tracks have been broken while you were soldering.

Ken

>Ok, so the TP wire is going to the tip contact and the SL wire
>is going to the shaft or ground contact.
>One output from each oscillator is plugged directly into the left
>and middle jacks of the RRing.
>The jack on the right is plugged directly to an amp.
>There's still no sound.
>Well if i turn the amp all the way up I can hear the two
>original tones very faintly.
>The VCO output is very high though.
>I barely need the volume up at all on the amp to get
>good levels normally.
>I must be missing something very basic here.
>Is there anything else involved?
>thanks,
>-jay
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>--- In cgs_synth@yahoogroups.com, sasami@... wrote:
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>> >I have 3 switchcraft type jacks(different that the box ones in ken's
>> >diagram) that have 3 places to connect wires.
>> >The first connects to the shaft where the plug enters so i figured
>> >that is the ground or the equivalent of SL?
>> >The other two connect to parts that are touching but when a plug
>> >enters the one piece(A) is forced away from the other.
>> >I am guessing that (A) is the equivalent of TP?
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>> The one that is forced away should be TP (the TIP). The important
>thing is
>> it is the contact that stays touching the tip of the plug. The
>output must
>> be one of the outer pairs of connections.
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>> >Also, my vco sounds weird now without the ring modulator attached.
>> >I figured since this was a passive device, no harm would come from
>> >trying different wiring out. Was this wrong to do?
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>> If you shorted out the VCO douring your experiments it would not be
>good.
>> Also while the ring mod is a passive device, it is also a heavy load -
>> notably more so than most synth modules. If a synth module is designed
>> propperly, it will not have any permanent affect, but if a synth
>module is
>> poorly designed it is vaguely possible damage could occur, though
>I've not
>> heard of it happening with the real ring before.
>>
>> Ken
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