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polaris semi-successful surgery

2007-09-19 by spistrich

I finally got some more "orange S+H caps" and went back at my bad #5 
and 6 voices with the soldering iron ....and now # 5 works fine..yea!...
But #6 is still distorted and raspy and sounds like 2 out of sync 
oscillators  in chorus but TUNE ALL wont fix it , it just shuts off 
voice #6. I can play #6 alone and it is not like the others.(it always 
sounded a little worse than #5 when both were bad) and it doesnt go 
away when i hit the sync button.  (that made the other bad voice #5 
sound better 'temporarily' before i replaced the s+h caps) So i tried 
switching the two 4105 chips with another voice and that didnt solve 
it. Now i did damage 2 of the board traces around the  .33mfd caps on 
#6 (it was the first one i did...got better at it) but i carefully 
established continuity with solder and a tiny piece of fine wire and it 
looks like its ok.  Particularly the 3/8" long trace that joins  one 
leg the 2 smaller .33 caps. cause the short trace ripped out of the 
board when i pulled the old cap out. THESE 2 SMALLER CAPS ARE SUPPOSED 
TO BE CONNECTED ---RIGHT? [Ive done that sort of pc board  trace repair 
before  on a Korg polysix and it worked ] 

 So im wondering if THe voice problem might be elsewhere, but where? 
another chip?  I would like to think that I didnt damage the Caps again 
when soldering... and  my other big question is  WHAT DO I LOOSE IN 
PERFORMANCE AND SOUND QUALITY IF I JUST KEEP VOICE #6 TURNED OFF AND 
FORGET ABOUT IT FOR NOW?

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