Repair Roland SH-101 Synthesizer Reparatur Service

21. Oktober 2019

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Repair Roland SH-101 Reparatur

Roland SH-101 vintage analog synthesizer full restoration and adding the SH-1oh1 Tubbutec MIDI. All potentiometer, switches were dirty and sound scratchy or jumped in value. Bender/Modulation had no function. Well, that was no big surprise as it was hit hard at some time as you can see in the picture below.

I could bend it back into "normal" postiontion by carefully applying some heat. The issue with the non working bender was found and repaired very quick. That was just a loose (red) wire, maybe from hitting it too hard. The other issue (modulation) was a dirty and misalligned switch.

I did some audio testings to verify that I really needed to clean everything. So I started my usual restoration process. 1. Taking everything apart 2. Cleaned all the potentiometers (desoldering, open, ipa, close, test, soldering) 3. Cleaned all the switches including the rotary (desoldering, open, ipa, close, test, soldering) 4. Cleaned the keyboard It´s not only done by washing the keys. Rather it's a refurbishing process of the contact-strips. In this first picture you can see a worn out contact...

And in the next picture you can see it refurbished.

Caution

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.

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