Khron's Cave

So this Cymatic LP-16 16-channel backing track player came in the other week, from a loyal and "repeat" customer, with the descri...

I know it's been quite a while, but i haven't given this up! Life just gets in the way, i'm sure you know how it is... Regardles...

 Ok, this is gonna be a bit of a quickie. Basically, i got this one ridiculously cheap as well, with the intention of repairing it and gifti...

A couple weeks back, an acquaintance contacted me about his Axe-FX II suddenly not powering up anymore. I saw this as an opportunity to at t...

Perhaps a bit anachronistically, only *after* getting my hands on the previously-torn-down 2i4 gen2 , i also came into the possession of a 2...

The practical side of this one was performed and documented a couple months back, but since i've had this back-log to work through, the ...

For a little while now, i've been thinking of "upgrading" from my old-but-modded M-Audio Fast Track to use as an in-ear monit...

Over on the Badcaps.net forums , a thread was started all the way back in 2010 , about power supply issues in these arguably "classic&q...

  And now, getting back to the issue affecting this unit... As pointed out in the ad, the LT3439 apparently used to have a piddly little h...

I was considering making the previous post about the repair as well, but once the teardown part of it was done, i decided it had gotten lon...

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...

A client brought in this Tivoli Model One the other day, with symptoms of (lots of) noise. Once again, i went against the mantra of "d...

A good buddy and neighbour of mine had one of his amps kick the bucket in the middle of a gig (one i was helping out on, as well). On the br...

[Part one can be found right over here ] Through a mix of patience, persistence and good luck, i managed to get my grubby mits on another,...

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

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...

We're having a "productive" period, as it turns out. This time around a TC Electronic Digital Konnekt x32 audio interface / d...

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

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...