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Re: OBXa Issues - Distortion & Keyboard Questions

2006-03-11 by jringmrath

Thanks for the reply!  Who was your Oberheim "Guru" in San Francisco?  I live there, so 
maybe I should give them a holler...

Jonathan





--- In oberheim@yahoogroups.com, Charles Massey <cmassey@...> wrote:
>
> I had an OBXa and it came close to driving me to the nut house!  I had 
> a repairman in Tampa that would go through that whole tuning process 
> and when it was finished, it sounded great.........until he hit auto 
> tune and everything went to shit.   I finally put it on a bus from 
> Florida to San Francisco  where there was a guru that helped it a great 
> deal but still no cigar.
> 
> He hard wired as much of the connections as possible and this made it 
> much more stable.
> 
> I talked to several pros that used them on the road and they all said 
> the same thing.  "Great sound when they were working!"
> 
> I ended up giving it away and miraculously, my headaches went away. <g> 
>   I know this is not advice but then..... maybe it is. <g>
> 
> Charlie in the swamp
> 
> On Mar 7, 2006, at 11:00 AM, nelsonj_sce wrote:
> 
> > As for the distortion, try panning your bad voice and see if that
> > helps the problem.  Also clean the pan pot with some component
> > cleaner.
> >
> > As for the "ghost" note...I have to think more about that.
> >
> > --
>

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