Vintage Synth Repair

hmmm, I wish it was that easy. The cord and PA work fine.  

--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason@...> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 09 March 2008 19:34, nau.dylan wrote:
> > Well, I sent my Arp to a repair guy.  It came back and it worked for about
> > an hour.  I went upstairs, came back an hour later and same thing,
> > "extremely low output". Heres what the repair guy did.  "repaired caps in
> > audio path around filter, lubed and cleaned switches/sliders, reflowed
> > solder connections around ADSR path, cleaned audio connectors".  I can hear
> > the filter working, The ADSR is also working as I can hear the attack
> > slider working too.  Could it be something in the output section or
> > something? I've noticed that the Odyssey has quite a hum/buzz to it even
> > when it is turned off.  The Buzz goes away if I take the power cable out
> > but otherwise is still there even when unit is turned off.
> 
> That sounds to me like you might have an issue with either the cable you're 
> using to take the output from,  or perhaps the input of the amplifier you're 
> driving.  I'd try a different cable first,  see if anything changes...
> 
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