Repairs - Wave 1

Ok, the rack gear and the CS-40 have gone to Patrick for repair. Hopefully he can fix them. The rack stuff probably just needs new power supplies, but the cs-40m is going to be a bit tricky.

He was busy re-capping an old Neve console for Daniel Lanois at the time. I think it's reasonable that my stuff should come first though!

The OB-8 is weird. The warmer it gets, the more out of tune it goes. That might make it more obvious that it's a capacitor. Patrick has a cool capacitance meter that makes checking them easy.

In other news I finished a new song yesterday. I think it will be called Mayan Calender but I'm not sure yet. I think it's the coolest thing I've done yet. Now I have to get back to finishing 4 or 5 others and release this CD.

Good News and Bad News

Well the good news is I'm working on a song now I think is my best ever. I have 4 or 5 in progress and along with my long 33 minute ambient thing that should be the next CD. I'm pretty happy about it, but it's hard work! Also this song is about 130 tracks so far so it's getting slow on my old computer.

The bad news is, everything is breaking down this year. I have a tc electronics M-one that needs repair, and my Alesis DMPRO. Then suddenly a week ago I had car problems (body work) and a few weeks ago my CD-40m suddenly went bad (one osc not tracking right).

Now last night suddenly the same thing happened to my OB-8. I did an auto-tune and it said voice 6 wasn't working. Then I did it again and it said voices 5-6-8 weren't working. Third time it said all 4 voice 5-8 weren't working. I went through them and they all sound but again it seems one osc is a tone low.

I'm guessing both the CS-40 and the OB-8 need to be recapped and I have a feeling this is going to cost around $1000.

What a pain!!