Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, HerrieSchopperrrrrrr <monologic@h...> 
wrote:
>
> Hi Ilja,
> 
> If I were you, I would open the XL7. If you don`t see anything 
broken 
> inside the XL7, I wouldn`t try to fix it ;)
> Buy a simple mixer with 3 stereo or 6 mono inputs.  Connect the 
XL7 to 
> the mixer. Turn the volume on to 127 and don`t touch the knob 
anymore.
> A simple but effective workaround.
> BTW, did you buy the XL form VL1? If so, it was a nice deal and 
mayby 
> you have some money left to buy a small submixer...
> 
> grtz,
> 
> "m0n0" Maarten
>

Hi everybody, it's been a while as I haven't had a lot of studio 
time lately :-( I've opened the unit, measured some PCB points, not 
really seeing anything that could be wrong. Except that the PCB 
traces from the soft power button run VERY closely along the volume 
pot meter. Thought they might be touching, this wasn't the case. I 
followed the instructions from this forum regarding the headphone 
humm, and additionaly removed/scraped some paint away from where you 
fasten the small headphone PCB to the front pannel, as it seems they 
share a common earth. Also adding some metal washers between the PCB 
and the front pannel, to ensure that the ground of the headphone, 
BNC lamp and volume knob where all connected with each other. 
Tightened it all up, put the unit back to gether and it seems to 
have worked! I'm really happy, don't want this unit to turn off in 
the middle of a live set and this seems to be solved! Guess its time 
to start reading the manual..blergh.. Though got some basic pattern 
going yesterday. LOVE the sound. It blows my RM1X away sound-wise
(it's a replacement for my RM1X, so I can only compare it to that..)

Thanks everybody for pointing me in the right direction!!


@m0n0lgic: Ja, hij was van VL1 en ben er ZEKER blij mee!!. Leuk om 
hier ook weer een synthforum'er tegen te komen...we zitten overal :-)