Saw this on eBay the other week, put in a cheeky £500 bid expecting it to go for a fair bit more and no-one else bid on it. So a little trip to Liverpool and back later and here we are…
Obviously it doesn’t really work, the top synth isn’t making any sound at all (but the LFO is working, so all is not lost…)
Thought I’d have a little look at the guts, see what we’re dealing with.
Looks very tidy internally for the most part. Hopefully you can check for continuity and find it’s something that just needs reflowing, and it’s not a hyper specific part that’s gone.
The other day I saw a repair video where someone went over schematics for hours (condensed, it was 45 minutes), but then he put a chip out and in again and it worked just like that. He then proceeded to deoxit all sockets. Of course in this case, there are no sockets, but sometimes it’s just oxidation or other simple stuff, like what you said about those solder joints.
(I just remembered, my Monomachine didn’t boot a few weeks ago. I opened up, disconnected everything and reconnected, worked again.)
