Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

Well, I did the mod last night with the 10K pots, and it seems pretty
extreme to me.

With cutoff all the way right I get only the faintest rumblings of
bass. Resonance mostly to the right gives some basic wah wah-type
sweeps, but  this also puts most of the range of the cutoff knob on
the right, meaning after it goes about midway it no longer has an
effect.  

But man, with resonance in the middle, WATCH OUT!  R2D2 noises!  This
is the ear-splitting stuff they warn you about.  Now cutoff controls
this new pitch, and I can use its full range, left to right.

So that's my mod.  Does it sound in line with the results everyone
else gets?  Oh, the other difference I just realized is that I
accidentally used linear, rather than log/audio pots.  It seems like
audio pots would just compound the effect of having the useful range
of the knob limited to its upper range.  Or not?


By the way, is there a term for when it starts generating that new,
high frequency tone that you control with the cutoff?

Thanks!
Tim


--- In korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com, "Byron Deerr IV" <bdeerr@w...> wrote:
> I'm fairly sure the mod would be less extreme, I think the 10k pot 
> would end while turning it beofre it reached the maximum value. I 
> used a 100k pot, if I remember correctly, and once it reaches a 
> certain point while turning it just stops changing it. I had no 
> intentions of improving the mod...it's just what I happened to have 
> laying around at the time.
> 
> Byron
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wunderhorn1 [mailto:wunderhorn1@y...] 
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 11:18 PM
> To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [korgpolyex] Moog Slayer with 10K Pots?
> 
> 
> For those with more electric knowledge than I... what would be the
> theorectical effect of doing the moog slayer mod with 10K pots rather
> than 50K pots?  More extreme?  Less extreme?  What about with much
> larger values, like from guitar controls? (250?  500?)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
>