Repair EMU Drumulator Reparatur Service

12. Januar 2016

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Repair EMU Drumulator Digital Drum Machine

This EMU Drumulator is from another famous DJ (his name shall not be mentioned yet). It had a lot of dirty corroed switches. This Unit now has an extended sample memory eprom modification mode. Here are my pics;)

Repair EMU Drumulator Vintage Drum Computer Reparatur Service

I found some weak, some cold solder joints. I simply reflowed them using some flux.

Matsushita? Sorry, no. Get out of here.

Dirty trigger buttons. I cleaned the black ones and replaced the other buttons against new ones.

I cleaned the slider potentiometer and also the potentiometer. These were dirty and scratchy.

Last but not least I replaced all LEDs. These looked very, very dim.

There are lethal voltage exposed in electronic devices. Unless you know what you are doing, don’t try this. If you following along, you doing so at your own risk.

I’m documenting repairs for my reference and yours. I do synth restorations and repair with a specialty in vintage synthesizers, drum computer and other vintage gear, based in Düsseldorf, GER. Get in touch about your synth situation!

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