Where to get gear repaired in London?

elektro80

I am talking London, UK here. A buddy of mine just asked me where he can get his Oberheim OB-MX and a Yamaha DX Programmer refurbished.
The gear is pretty ... dead..
My old contacts in London seemingly are gone out of business 10 years ago or more. I am still trying to hunt down some friends over there who should be the right kind of rocket scientists for the job. Dunno... they might be hiding on Bali.
But.. any suggestions? These devices are pretty obscure. A specialist repair shop is the best bet.

a100user · Joined: Oct 28, 2003 Posts: 158 Location: UK

There are a couple of options that come to mind, although I expect none of them will be inexpensive.

The Synth Service Centre based in north London

http://www.synth-service.co.uk/

FX Music Control based in Staffordshire

http://www.musiccontrol.co.uk/

And lastly a guy I use, Tony Allgood, based in Cumbria

http://www.oakleysound.com - also designs nice MOTM modular stuff

regards

a100user · Joined: Oct 28, 2003 Posts: 158 Location: UK

There are a couple of options that come to mind, although I expect none of them will be inexpensive.

The Synth Service Centre based in north London

http://www.synth-service.co.uk/

FX Music Control based in Staffordshire

http://www.musiccontrol.co.uk/

And lastly a guy I use, Tony Allgood, based in Cumbria

http://www.oakleysound.com - also designs nice MOTM modular stuff

regards

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:59 am Post subject:

THX a lot!

I was thinking about Mr. Allgood myself. Never met the guy, but the info at his site is pretty ... telling Very Happy

a100user · Joined: Oct 28, 2003 Posts: 158 Location: UK

Tony is a real straight guy.

He will tell it straight, charge sensible fees for investigation and only with approval proceed to finish a job.

He also desgins some nice gear. I particularly love the Equinoxe Phasers.

I have two setup as a stereo pair under CV control, wonderful.

David

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:22 am Post subject:

I am sending Tony an email right now. THX.

A stereo phaser with CV control!!! HEY! I reckon it even has a "drooling mode". Very Happy

a100user · Joined: Oct 28, 2003 Posts: 158 Location: UK

Indeed.

If I recall it's based on the Small stone.

Analogue Systems licence the design for their Phaser module.

Very JMJ Oxygene/Equinox sound, hence the name I expect.

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:32 am Post subject:

Hmm.. this reminds me I am missing a nice phaser of that kind of breed. I have some old material I cannot record yet because I haven´t any decent phaser around. Hmm.. I gotta check out his product details for this one. I had two small stone copies which had been rewired and customized a bit. Lost.. long ago.

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:34 am Post subject:

That´s one mighty impressive avatar you´ve got there. Very Happy

a100user · Joined: Oct 28, 2003 Posts: 158 Location: UK

That's my Doepfer rig (well mostly - 7 Analogue Systems & 2 Analogue Solutions modules) Basically 6 VCO's, 2 Wavetable/Sampling Osc, 8 different filter types, 7 LFO's, 9 envelops, 3 sequencers, and a variety of mixers, inverters, S&H, ring mod, joysticks, ribbon controller etc about 90 modules altogether. All controlled by a Roland 184 kbd

Plus I have a Oakley/MOTM rack and a few other modular bits as well.

I love modular synths Laughing

Howard was at the event that picture was taken, Modular2003, in London.

Starting to get into software modulars now. Saving up pennies for a Nord G2, awesome machine.

David

egw · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 6:47 am Post subject:

Why so many LFOs?

mosc · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:18 am Post subject:

I'll let David answer that, but I'd guess that they are useful for self-playing patches, or noodles as they are called by the Nord Modular crowd. If I recall correctly, he does installation type gigs.

a100user · Joined: Oct 28, 2003 Posts: 158 Location: UK

In part Howard is correct, the modular may be playing serveral patches at the same time.

Also I love building big evolving tonal structures. For these I may mix serveral modulation sources (LFO's/envelopes/sequencers) to drive pitch or some other parameter. This allows for a more unpredictable modulation pattern (at times almost chaotic, where the sound will seem to move around a point - attractor- then move onto another. At other times sort of fractal when repetitions occur but deminish in some form).

Lots of fun.

egw · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:59 am Post subject:

You may be interested to know that the cycle time for LFOs on the G2 can be as long as 699 seconds! You could also use a logic delay to trigger them every 12700 seconds (3.5 hours) or every 1612900 seconds (18.7 days) or...

elektro80 · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:01 am Post subject:

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a100user · Joined: Oct 28, 2003 Posts: 158 Location: UK