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Welcome to the forum! Does it only have that smell when you power it, or all the time? It's all the time Well, maybe you just don't like the smell of old early '80s BOSS pedals! I have such a problem with the Japanese BF-2. It has such a strange metallic smell that reminds me of welding. I have had...

Welcome to the forum!

Does it only have that smell when you power it, or all the time?

Ah, I see! The LM-2 is designed to tame the volume of signal peaks to prevent clipping. With drastic settings it can be used for the purpose that you have in mind, but I really wouldn't recommend it. The problem is that your playing dynamics would be lost. Every single note and especially chords wou...

Welcome to the forum! I don't know if I understand your question correctly. Do you you have a vintage LM-2 that you want to use in combination with the Katana amp? I'm not familiar with these amps, so I just had a look at the user's manual. It has a limiter effect inside as well. Is this one based o...

It is also a big pain to remove the pot. If your unit looks the same inside as this one, I don't know why there is a problem to desolder it: https://www.doktorsewage.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/photo-4.jpg Also, opening these Alpha potentiometers is fairly easy. You should only be careful with t...

More hints before April, please!

KORG M1 repair/maintanence/cleaning finished today. So the birthday surprise for next Saturday is ready (my brother gave the broken M1 to me several months ago and I had to keep him waiting all the time, because there was no chance yet for a repair). It took me many hours to make this instrument wor...

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A DingoTone GHF has popped up for 80 CAD (or USD?): https://www.varagesale.com/regina-sk-buy-and-sell/i/777kc9tt-dingotone https://pixl.varagesale.com/http://s3.amazonaws.com/hopshop-image-store-production/295763399/84ec381e2f6f30777e2ac946a56c2a47.jpg?_ver=large_uploader_thumbnail&w=640&h=640&fit=c...

Thank you! And now I have two more synth repair/cleaning jobs. My brother's KORG M1 has stuck keys and broken switch caps that fell inside the chassis, plus it needs new tactile switches. And another KORG Poly-800 with inverted keys made it to me (for resale this time). Very time-consuming stuff, es...