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Monday, January 29, 2007

KORG PS-3100

Title link takes you to more images via MM who restored this particular KORG PS-3100. You can see a before and after shots after the hop.

9 comments:

  1. now that is beautiful

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  2. Beautiful.
    One of my favourite synths ever.

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  3. they sound nice.. 3200 is nicer. Haven't tried a 3300..I owned a 31 and 3200 and would use the 31 to control the 32 with the 60 pin connector.. mmmmm good times.

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  4. Get an cheap Organ and a Motm Resonator.
    These beasts are to overpiced imho.

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  5. i agree this is pretty, but it could have rats living inside for all i know :-)

    serious question- does restored mean he restored just the wood?

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  6. There are no rats inside. :)

    I restored the actual synth myself over a year ago, which included cleaning, replacing some pots and keys, finding a new knob for the one that was missing, replacing ~200 caps, fixing the chorus and two voices and so on.

    I then lived in an apartment then with no place to make a cabinet, so I asked a retired carpenter to make a new one for me, but he didn't give the task high priority. It took ages and I just got it back a week ago. I now live in a house and if I need another cabinet of some kind I will definitely build it myself, but of course I'm happy with the PS-3100 anyway. I just had to wait for way too long.

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  7. I always wanted a PS3300 but they were just too much $ and hard to find. I tried to get close with two 3100's, it was a nice rig but unfortunately had to be sold. Very nice synth MM hope you enjoy !

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  8. I know it's logic-defying, but when I just have one third of my 3300 going it sounds quite different than a 3100. The 3100 is a bit narrower of bandwith, it seems. Could it be the output section, the chorus circuit? Maybe the caps are older in the 3100 & it's an unfair comparison. Who knows...

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