I think I'm in over my head...

So, someone was selling an SH-1000 in pieces for a small amount of money.
He said it was in pieces, some switches were missing, and showed some pictures of it.
I thought "How bad can it be? I'll take it."

Oh shit...

Repairing a Synare Sensor

Picture grabbed from video ;)

I was asked to take a look at this strange thing and see if I could repair it.
Supposedly it made fun noises once upon a time, but not anymore. I had never heard of it before and I couldn't really find any schematics, but I decided to look at it anyway.
(I actually fixed this back in Decemeber 2012, but I've been too lazy to post about it until now ;) )

TC5514APL-3 SRAM tester done

My SRAM tester is finally done!

I've finished a project!
This is an important milestone :)
This is probably of more importance to me than anyone else, but I still thought it might be worth writing about, since I've already posted about building this thing...
Now I can test TC5514APL-3 ICs :)
It should also work for uPD444C, M58981P and HM4334P since they're the same thing, but I don't have any of those.

International Karate (C64 music remake)

A Commodore 64 game music remake

I decided to do a quick remake of a C64 game song, just for fun.
Though I own plenty of VST synthesizers, the goal was to only use analog synthesizers and no overdub, i.e. only one instrument per sound. So you only hear the Juno-60 playing a single sound for instance.
I didn't know which song to pick, but after a short while chose the main song for the game International Karate, composed by Rob Hubbard.

Actually, I'm not too pleased with the result.
Some sounds (like the first one, heh) have an annoying ringing that I didn't bother removing. I guess I'm using too much resonance...
This was just a quick experiment so I don't care if it doesn't sound all that good.

Anyway, I thought I'd share it, so here it is:
(Update: I replaced that first sound with something better, so it's not piercing your eardrums any longer :) )

Repairing an EHX Super Space Drum

Electro Harmonix SSD repair

Somebody had noticed I had done some repairs on my own gear and asked me if I could take a look at an EHX Super Space Drum that wasn't working.
Symptoms were that it started to not trigger well until it finally gave up and refused to trigger at all. I had absolutely no idea what could have caused it and my initial thought was some sort of bad connection or other mechanical problem.
I had never repaired anything for someone else and I didn't have any pressure on me really. It was more of a "just see if you can do something about it" request, so I thought it'd be fun to give it a shot!

Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of it so I'm using a frame of a video clip I made with it :)

The picture is from AFTER I had serviced it. Read on if you're curious about the alligator clips to the left.