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Re: MOTM-101 output level and a question about mounting.

2005-10-25 by gregorykjar

Thanks alot. Nice site you´ve done, very informative with lots of 
good thoughts.
Great thing the internet, when I half a year ago started considering 
going real modular - after several years with loads of soft synths -
I thought that Doepfer where the only supplier. Luckily I made a 
google search for "modular synthesizer" and ended up with the first 
MOTM-modules and so far I havent been dissapointed. A lot of soft 
synth programming (especially Reaktor) had grown a wish for knobs, 
and a midi controller didn´t do it so now I´m beginning to twiddle 
real knobs and its great. And if you go for hardware you should go 
for top quality not quantity. In another studio Í´m working in we 
bougth a George Massenburg mic preamp last year. Thats 1 - one - 
channel strip with a pricetag of a car! And its worth every penny!
Doepfer (I have a "Regelwerk" and its much fun an a good tool for a 
lot of things) is probably good for some but I´d rather have fewer 
modules with higher quality.  And not that software is dead neither, 
you should hear an analog drone modulated through a good (software)
vocoder. You can really hear that the "base" sound is thick.

Sorry about all the words they just came out.

greetings form Denmark

Gregory

--- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "mate_stubb" <mate_stubb@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi Gregory,
> 
> Welcome to the MOTM world! As far as your gain, something is indeed
> out of whack, since you should have more gain than that on the 
output.
> 
> Did you check resistors with a multimeter? Sometimes it's easy to
> misread a color band.
> 
> As far as cabinets, I've written a little treatise on the subject:
> http://www.hotrodmotm.com/cab.htm
> 
> Moe
> http://www.hotrodmotm.com
> 
> --- In motm@yahoogroups.com, "gregorykjar" <greg@i...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > 
> > Sorry if this question has been brought up before, but I´ve been 
> > searching the list for a while and can´t find a clear answer. 
The 
> > thing is that my newly build MOTM-101 SH has quite a low output; 
> > around 100mV on the white noise out (Trimmer TP1 at max measured 
> > with my Wellemann DVM891)and this gives a maximum SH output 
(with 
> > noise as internal S/H source) on around .7 - .9 Volts. 
(with "Level" 
> > at max setting) According to the manual I should get higher 
levels, 
> > but here it says that the first OP-AMP after the noise diodes 
has a 
> > gain of 100, as I se it its only 10  -  100k (R4) / 10k (R3). 
Could 
> > I just reduce R3 (to 3,3K or something) or should I check a 4.th 
> > time if everything is rigth, maybe check-measure resitors? I 
would 
> > like a bit more out of the S/H to modulate filters.
> > Apart from that, as a new MOTM user I can only say I´m a fan. 
Fan of 
> > the sound, fan of the quality.
> > Which brings me to the next question. Mounting in 19" racks is 
nice 
> > and easy but I can quickly se this sytem grow, wich means high 
racks 
> > or broad cabinets (dot. com style)What do you guys prefer - 
broad or 
> > high?
> > Or maybe the system goes so big its gotta be both. But then I´ll 
be 
> > broke. 
> > 
> > greetings from Denmark
> > 
> > Gregory
> >
>

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