Poly Six Problems
2003-04-07 by ghwelles
I bought a Poly six on E-bay. Of course it has some problems. I did the "OldCrow" battery mod and trace repair to resolve any problems associated with battery leakage. But Now I still have some issues: There is a problem when the resonance is up high and the eg reduced, five of the six voices are quiet and the sixth is very loud. Also some distortion is heard on some voices but not others when the resonance is cranked. This weekend I tuned all the voices to each other. The high range now plays in tune relative to itself. The low range has a progressive drop off in pitch, the farther down the board you go the more it goes flat. Also when holding a key down the tone will go into oscillation intermittently, and especially before the unit warms up. A patch with no modulation will suddenly start warbling if you hold a key for a few seconds. Anybody with any ideas?