{"id":224,"date":"2009-08-25T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T17:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/?p=224"},"modified":"2009-08-25T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T17:37:47","slug":"like-the-city-in-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Like the city in Alaska?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/roland_juno_contest1.jpg\" alt=\"This is how I Juno!\" title=\"This is how I Juno!\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/roland_juno_contest1.jpg 180w, https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/roland_juno_contest1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Juno-106 chips removed and replaced, little trim-pots for &#8220;VCA offset&#8221;, &#8220;VCF resonance&#8221;, &#8220;VCF frequency&#8221;, &#8220;VCF width&#8221;, etc., trimmed and calibrated x6, and all is well. It didn&#8217;t take long to abandon the &#8220;hey, let&#8217;s desolder all the VCF\/VCA chips and spend two weeks soaking them in a coffee can full of acetone, carefully peeling the resin coatings off, then putting them back&#8221; idea, as 1) the little buggers are really tedious to get out with all their legs intact unless you have the patience of a saint, which I don&#8217;t, and a better solder-sucker than you can buy at the local Radio Shack, 2) after the first hour of desoldering and re-soldering, my personality type quickly arrives at the conclusion that it&#8217;s better to just spend the money to buy more replacement chips instead of spending all this time dicking around with desoldering braid and tweezers, and 3) I want to use the thing <em>now<\/em>, not in a couple weeks. So i just replaced the two ICs that were bad for now, and resigned myself to replacing the stupid things on an as-needed basis (they&#8217;re only half original-equipment now, so three more and it&#8217;ll be totally &#8216;overhauled&#8217;). <\/p>\n<p>Synths repaired: 1. House fires started: 0. Chips permanently destroyed (at least, enough of the little metal-fatigued legs damaged as to make them not worth the trouble of salvaging) in the process when I ran out of patience and decided to just wiggle them back and forth until the legs snapped off: 2. Voices that seem like they&#8217;re on the verge of going in the future, so I should order a few more spares for next time: 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juno-106 chips removed and replaced, little trim-pots for &#8220;VCA offset&#8221;, &#8220;VCF resonance&#8221;, &#8220;VCF frequency&#8221;, &#8220;VCF width&#8221;, etc., trimmed and calibrated x6, and all is well. It didn&#8217;t take long to abandon the &#8220;hey, let&#8217;s desolder all the VCF\/VCA chips and spend two weeks soaking them in a coffee can full of acetone, carefully peeling the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studioblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dollfactory.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}