Hi there my name is Alex! I am a musician from NYC. I recently got into repairing and restoring my own recording equipment. My 3 major projects have been:
1. Restoring my 1976-ish tweed console 12x4. Recapped it completely with nichion gold caps, and rechipped the whole desk. I also made necessary changes such as upgrading the switches in my monitoring section, changed every LED, replaced any female connectors, etc etc. I even rebuilt the PSU, upgraded the regulator chips, caps, and bridge rectifiers. it’s a wonderful console. After about a year of its restoration it has not had a single issue.
2. Restoring my DBX 165A. There was a cold joint on one of the VCA legs so it would not properly compress. Took a minute to sniff out the issue, recapped and rechipped in the process.
3. Restored my 1972 EMS Synthi A lovingly nicknamed TIM. It was used to create the AI, TIM‘s, voice for the show ‘the tomorrow people’ a 70’s sci-fi show in the UK. I changed pretty much every component. Every trimmer, rainbow fish cap, electrolytic, rebuilt the PSU, upgraded the resistors to ceramics or higher wattage to sustain hear, tempo resistors, factory matched transistors, etc etc. i even designed a push pull knob system to automatically snap the synthi’s tuning to 1v/ oct. (synthi’s octave scaling/ tuning is very strange and impossible to tune if you’re playing live in the moment)
Thank you for allowing me to join groupdiy. Here are some photos of my projects
1. Restoring my 1976-ish tweed console 12x4. Recapped it completely with nichion gold caps, and rechipped the whole desk. I also made necessary changes such as upgrading the switches in my monitoring section, changed every LED, replaced any female connectors, etc etc. I even rebuilt the PSU, upgraded the regulator chips, caps, and bridge rectifiers. it’s a wonderful console. After about a year of its restoration it has not had a single issue.
2. Restoring my DBX 165A. There was a cold joint on one of the VCA legs so it would not properly compress. Took a minute to sniff out the issue, recapped and rechipped in the process.
3. Restored my 1972 EMS Synthi A lovingly nicknamed TIM. It was used to create the AI, TIM‘s, voice for the show ‘the tomorrow people’ a 70’s sci-fi show in the UK. I changed pretty much every component. Every trimmer, rainbow fish cap, electrolytic, rebuilt the PSU, upgraded the resistors to ceramics or higher wattage to sustain hear, tempo resistors, factory matched transistors, etc etc. i even designed a push pull knob system to automatically snap the synthi’s tuning to 1v/ oct. (synthi’s octave scaling/ tuning is very strange and impossible to tune if you’re playing live in the moment)
Thank you for allowing me to join groupdiy. Here are some photos of my projects
