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Re: Trouble with ARP Omni 1 (stuck note, etc)

2006-02-06 by P........

thanks very much! I think I know where to look now from the
schematics, but just to be double safe the caps in question are the
bigger blue caps next to the section with rows of resistors, small
blue caps, transistors, etc, right? Sorry but I'm really a 'greenhorn'
at this lol 
--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, Peter Brown <pbrown@...> wrote:
>
> hi there, i have a little web site w/info on Arp Omni I's that might be 
> useful to you (schematics etc.)...
> 
> http://people.umass.edu/brownp/arp/
> 
> yes, the caps are the little blue buggers - i replaced most of mine
with 
> aluminum electrolytics...good luck w/your project!
> 
> regards, PB>>
> --
> Peter Brown, Ph.D.         Dept. of Microbiology
> IT Coordinator/Lovley Lab  422E Morrill Science Center IVN
> (413) 577-2747             University of Massachusetts
> http://geobacter.org       Amherst, MA 01003-9298
> 
> On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, P........ wrote:
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> > Thanks alot! Well I took the synth apart and.. this might sound silly
> > but I'm really not that technically gifted although I do have some
> > soldering skills and as you propably found out through my not so good
> > grammar I don't originate from this country so I'm wondering if when
> > you talk about caps do you mean the blue capacitors which I see
> > together with rows of resistors at the bottom part of the lower
> > voicing section and should I do the same thing in the upper voicing
> > section too? And would that also fix the problem with the bass
> > section? I also could need some schematics and info to see which cap
> > refers to which key so that I don't cut the wrong one.
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