Khron's Cave

You know me, i can't pass up a silly-good deal when i see one. That's how i ended up grabbing the other week, two AKG small-diaphrag...

Right, so i had been on the hunt for the cheapest way i could get a 1x12" or 2x12" guitar cab for a while now - mainly because i l...

Well, this one's a "biggie" - i had been lusting after one of these for a few years now, but the price was (and technically st...

Even though this is the 4th or 5th of these units that has gone through my hands, looks like i never documented a teardown of one - shame on...

Long time no see, eh? Well, what can you do when the new job's kicking you in the rear end? Regardless, new patient on the table this ti...

[[[ Repair can be found here ]]] This came up on eBay the other week as faulty - inputs 1/2 and outputs 1/2 seemingly dead. First instinc...

Aaaaand it's back! Not because of technical issues though. Due to chance, and the limited speed of international shipping, only the day ...

This just came in, with the symptom description of "will no longer turn on". Fair enough, sounds like a power supply issue then. A...

It took the best part of an evening and a couple hours the next day, but i managed to lift the schematic for the whole preamp board. I als...

This JBL Charge 3 came in last week in need of a micro-USB (charging) connector replacement. First thing i did was to look up how to take a...

My bandmate got his hands on this Joyo ZoMBie about a week or two back; it was sold as faulty. No idea how or why, but there's somethin...

A local guitarist friend of mine recently upgraded his rig to a Fractal AX8 , and as such, a couple of his overdrive pedals got relegated to...

A local friend bought this slightly battle-scarred Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 off a buddy of his. The reported issue was some random / interm...

Ebay strikes again - this time, a pretty damn cheap (to acquire) M-Audio Profire 2626 Firewire audio interface. I maintain it's still th...

Yet another "sold as faulty" eBay catch - a nice little(?) Focusrite Scarlett 18i8 USB audio interface . Which turned out to actua...

Together with the pair of Konnekt x32's (one of which is dealt with in the previous write-up here ), i also got one of these Presonus Au...

Yet another sold-as-faulty eBay catch - a nice little Focusrite Saffire Pro 24 DSP Firewire audio interface. The listing said: "I bo...

Hunting for faulty stuff on eBay has been fruitful yet again: this time, a MOTU Traveler mk3 Firewire audio interface. The reported issue ...

This little bugger, an M-Audio / Avid Fast Track C600, was listed as faulty on eBay - description said it would no longer power up, regardle...

Since the "unofficial" theme of this blog seems to be repair, recycling and repurposing (more or less), i finally got around to ge...