LVL1 » mangled http://www.lvl1.org louisville's hackerspace Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:49:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Synth Resurrection http://www.lvl1.org/2010/06/21/synth-resurrection/ http://www.lvl1.org/2010/06/21/synth-resurrection/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:07:32 +0000 Christopher http://www.lvl1.org/?p=140 Last thursday night, a tragic event occurred. My bandmate’s Nord Lead 2 synthesizer darted in front of a car and was run over. Crushed, mangled and inoperational.

Before:

He brought the wreckage over to my place Friday night. I worked a little synth triage and was able to get it banged out and functioning. Some hammering, superglue, resoldering to a busted power supply and it lives again!

After:




I’m calling it the Nord Bleed. It’s completely operational and playable. The high C key was pulverized beyond repair, so I left it off. I need to source some replacement potentiometers and knobs. The are all 100ohm pots, but have an uncommon 4mm D-shaft I haven’t found a replacement for yet. Once the bent and snapped pots are replaced it will be 100% tweakable again. I have much respect for the Swedes at Clavia and their roadworthy (literally) engineering.

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