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- kingsteven3
Having a nightmare ATM with my AcidLab Drumatix, loved this drum machine and put it to good use for a few years - basically a 606 with extra controls, 808 rimshot, DR110 clap, an extra 808 kick and snare channel and individual outs and volume knobs per channel. The dream right?!
Well over time a few of the volume knobs had packed in which means it's been shelved for a couple of years. I even put it on eBay last year at a reasonable price, but just got a bunch of low ball offers due to the faults... Finally last week decided I should fix it up.
Wish i'd never opened it FFS
I don't know if it's just an early model but the circuit board is bodged as fuck, components bridging all over the show, all the volume pots are cheap as hell and have had their shafts cut down to fit + two big flimsy rotary switches marked 'MADE IN EAST GERMANY'
After a couple false starts due to a dodgy soldering iron I finally replaced the 4 dodgy knobs with high quality pots and tested it all out yesterday - took about 2 hours just to get the old pots out due to the double sided PCB and close proximity to SMT components... but seemed like a decent job, tested it all out and everything was working perfectly. Started reassembling it in the case one of the rotary switches broke open and out popped a miniscule spring across my studio in to the ether... FUUUUCCKK
Just ordered what I hope to be a suitable replacement spring from China but jaysus - don't think I look at it the same way ever again, or sell the fucking thing with a clear conscience! I see a Behringer RD-8 in my future.
- Didnt realise that image was so shit http://imgur.com/a/5…kingsteven
- Find a local place that can service it for reasonable price?prophetone
- ach, it's more a pain in the ass than something outside my realm of ability - i cant find replacements for the rotaries anywhere and i now know all the originalkingsteven
- pots will fail and need replaced in time too. i'll get there eventually but the shoddiness of the build is a turn off more than anything.kingsteven
- feel like sideshow bob 'there were plenty of new drum machines but no, you had to go for that retro industrial charm' :)kingsteven
- i bet look mum no computer could help source partsimbecile
- ^ he'd probably just replace it with a furbykingsteven
- You should just replace it with a fur– heyscarabin
- For boards i just use ebay. Fixed a bunch of TVs with parts from therescarabin
- lol, he repaired an old prophet the other dayimbecile
- Nicescarabin