smallbutfine
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First thread about this bitch...
:grin:
Since this one is a *very* cheap buy (ebay), it's a good thing for experiments with a soldering iron...
I checked the sound for a few days in several settings - almost useless, maybe if you are in "house" music, you can get a special *mud* sound ...
So opened up this thingie and tried 2 mods so far, seen on the old TT...
First one:
I got my Knipex and cutted two jumpers to eliminate the almost useless noisegate (does a lot "fluttering"). Very easy, much effect! A vast amound of "colourful" distortion was gone...
But now i had a crackling oscillation in the heights...
So i went on modding and tried a mod posted a while ago, old TT again...
Very easy as well, i soldered a bridge from the tip of a sidechain insert to the tip of the corresponding out (this was a very cool idea, whoever came to this first... ).
Sound was completely changing, much more warmth, crackling is gone...(as well as the possibility to use the output knob in a useful way :wink: ).
The ratio knob is working very different now... the thread i read mentioned this before, but no matter, it sounded unusable before, and now it doesnt make my ears bleeding anymore....
Since now i can say: i didn't expected this one to be useful from the beginning, but with this little afford i'm very surprised to get this big changes in sound.
I don't believe changing the opamps could get as much improvement as this "design change" mods!
But now i'm stuck...
i think there's alot of interest in this device, since it sells this often and is mostely hated for his sound...
Detector ciruit has to be modded for proper operation now...
Someone was much more into it as me, but...who?
Any help appreciated...
:grin:
Since this one is a *very* cheap buy (ebay), it's a good thing for experiments with a soldering iron...
I checked the sound for a few days in several settings - almost useless, maybe if you are in "house" music, you can get a special *mud* sound ...
So opened up this thingie and tried 2 mods so far, seen on the old TT...
First one:
I got my Knipex and cutted two jumpers to eliminate the almost useless noisegate (does a lot "fluttering"). Very easy, much effect! A vast amound of "colourful" distortion was gone...
But now i had a crackling oscillation in the heights...
So i went on modding and tried a mod posted a while ago, old TT again...
Very easy as well, i soldered a bridge from the tip of a sidechain insert to the tip of the corresponding out (this was a very cool idea, whoever came to this first... ).
Sound was completely changing, much more warmth, crackling is gone...(as well as the possibility to use the output knob in a useful way :wink: ).
The ratio knob is working very different now... the thread i read mentioned this before, but no matter, it sounded unusable before, and now it doesnt make my ears bleeding anymore....
Since now i can say: i didn't expected this one to be useful from the beginning, but with this little afford i'm very surprised to get this big changes in sound.
I don't believe changing the opamps could get as much improvement as this "design change" mods!
But now i'm stuck...
i think there's alot of interest in this device, since it sells this often and is mostely hated for his sound...
Detector ciruit has to be modded for proper operation now...
Someone was much more into it as me, but...who?
Any help appreciated...