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Kit Care

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | In Tune, Oct 1985

How to maintain your kit

Lab Notes: Computer Music Without the Computer

Feature | Topic: Computing, Electronics / Build, Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Polyphony, Oct 1976
or: What to do 'til your processor arrives.

Leading Story

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Making Music, Jun 1986

Let Us Spray

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Making Music, Sep 1987
Spraying Dangers

MIDI Retrofits

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification, MIDI, Vintage Instruments | Sound On Sound, Mar 1989

Tony Wride takes a stroll down nostalgia lane and discovers two companies that can turn your prized antique into a thoroughly modern MIDI instrument.

Modify Your "Phlanger"

Feature | Topic: Electronics / Build, Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Polyphony, Apr/May 1978
for Lower Noise

Modifying The Mu-Tron Bi-Phase

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Polyphony, Feb 1978
For Control Voltage Interfaces

Modifying Time Constants

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Polyphony, Jun 1975
In Synthesizer Modules

Mono to Stereo Guitar Conversion

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | International Musician, Jul 1975

Ever wished you had a stereo guitar? If so, here's haw to get it.

More GR-500 Comments and Mods

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Polyphony, Jul/Aug 1981

More Power Amplifier Surgery

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Electronics & Music Maker, Jun 1983
Repairing MOSFET Power Amplifiers

Power Amp Surgery

Nails And Their Nature

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Making Music, Dec 1986

Get broken very easily, especially when you throw guitar strings at them. Make them hard with Making Music.

New Coats

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | One Two Testing, Jul 1984
Spraying

why guitars go lovely colours

New Pickups For Old

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Electronics & Music Maker, Oct 1983
Hints on replacement pickups for electric guitars

Hints and tips on replacement pickups for your guitar

Phantom Powering the Realistic PZM

Feature | Topic: Electronics / Build, Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Home & Studio Recording, Jul 1984

Our final modification to this inexpensive 'pressure zone microphone' makes the unit suitable for more professional applications.

Phono Guide

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Home & Studio Recording, May 1984

A step-by-step guide to wiring phono connectors.

Plane Speaking - Part 1

Feature Series | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | In Tune, Dec 1986
In Tune's Guide To Guitar Making, Customising & Setting Up

Guitar making, repairing, customising. Pt.1 of a great new series

Polarity Unveiled

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification, Sound Fundamentals | Home & Studio Recording, Sep 1986

Ben Duncan goes through one of his phases...

Power Play

Feature | Topic: Electronics / Build, Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Music Technology, Oct 1991

If you've got problems with your power supply, you've got problems with your MIDI setup - you've probably got problems you never imagined. Mark Burletson plays at megalomania.

Reverb Modification

Feature | Topic: Electronics / Build, Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Polyphony, Jul 1977

Roland Drumatix Modifications

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Electronics & Music Maker, Feb 1984

A step by step guide to giving your Roland TR606 separate outputs for each percussion voice.

Sample & Hold Modification

Feature | Topic: Electronics / Build, Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Polyphony, Jul 1977
Provides Note Bender

Sample & Hold Resurrection

Feature | Topic: Electronics / Build, Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Polyphony, Feb 1978
what to do with your analog sample and hold once you've gone digital

Servicing your needs

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Sound On Sound, Jan 1987

Question: What do you do when your synth blows a fuse and you blow your top? Answer: You take it along to London's new Synthesizer Service Centre set up by skilled repairmen Ron Lebar and David Croft. Matthew Newman reports.

Set It Up!

Feature | Topic: Maintenance / Repair / Modification | Phaze 1, Apr 1989

how to ensure your guitar will give its best - and keep on giving it

 

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