MC-303 Teardown and Repair Attempt
Added 2021-01-02 02:41:30 +0000 UTCI would be interested in some feedback on this one because it was a departure from my recent videos and a return to the style of video I started out making. I'm frequently recommended to try making lower production quality videos in fill in the space between my big ones and this is a much more real attempt at that than the RGB lights video I just did. The lower production value made this easy to make taking only two days to finish and it could have been one if it had been delivered earlier in the day. In this case it didn't have a very satisfying result so it's not the best example. But I'm curious to hear feedback on this. Should I make more videos like this on little things in between big projects? They would have to be no research like this for it to actually work as a low effort video. And then if so, should I release videos like this on my main channel or just the second channel? This is a preview upload because I need to record this month's printout now that it changed over. So I will be re-uploading either way. But I would appreciate thoughts on this video and future ones like it.
And this is a re-post because the first one was missing audio.
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I was able to find the part itself on mouser and will be ordering it on there. Those other ones had such high shipping like you mentioned that I'd just leave it as is. But now I'll stick it in with my next parts order and get it fixed for a much more reasonable price
Tech Tangents
2021-01-08 20:36:21 +0000 UTCDid you wind up buying a new volume potentiometer? When I searched eBay for one, I found them only for sale from Israel and Australia (with high shipping). I also found https://syntaur.com/Items.php?Item=2037 (which I assume you would've found, too).
Eric Siegel
2021-01-06 17:00:56 +0000 UTCI can't take credit for the outro, that's a built in demo track. But it's hearing stuff like that which drew me to this device and it seems like it's well designed to make creating something like that without a lot of work. This device is what is informally called a "ROMpler". It has a bunch of sample recordings that it plays back to make the sounds, so it's not really synthesizing anything. The output filter stages to change the samples but on this unit they are a weird mix of analog and digital that I don't fully understand yet but suspect the answer will be "it's basically a computer inside" so I don't know if that would be very interesting to get into. The video didn't really go as planned which it the majority of the problem, I tried to make up for it at the end by trying to demo some of the sounds and features but my inexperience with it made that part less interesting in retrospect that I thought it would be when I was doing it.
Tech Tangents
2021-01-02 15:23:46 +0000 UTCI loved the outro track! Maybe this video would be easier to follow if you added some slides explaining the principles of sound synthesis.
G3rn0ti
2021-01-02 09:02:29 +0000 UTC
