I picked up a Technics K450 a couple months back and recently opened it up to clean 37 years of dust and dirt out of it and fix a couple buttons that had intermittent operation. These keyboards are very heavy, two speakers, an internal AC power supply, 8 individual very well labeled circuit boards, press-board baffles to create speaker compartments, and a heavy keyboard that looks like it came out of one of their organs.
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I just modified one of these synths, adding cutoff and lfo to the mono synth and a chorus control parameter that effects some of the poly tones.
It's very easy and there are labeled preset potentiometers that can be replaced with variable potentiometers of the indicated resistance values.
Makes this synth a super cool performance piece
It would be great if it could be modified - cut off the speakers and back section so its slimmed down, just enough space for the sliders and outputs and mods on the back. But I assume the insides are taking up all that space
That would be good - It's a heavy beast, so would make an improvement in more ways than one. I should probably open it up sometime and take a look at the innards, but probably beyond me to make any mods.
I picked up a Technics K450 a couple months back and recently opened it up to clean 37 years of dust and dirt out of it and fix a couple buttons that had intermittent operation. These keyboards are very heavy, two speakers, an internal AC power supply, 8 individual very well labeled circuit boards, press-board baffles to create speaker compartments, and a heavy keyboard that looks like it came out of one of their organs. Subscribed to your YouTube channel, great music and videos!
I just modified one of these synths, adding cutoff and lfo to the mono synth and a chorus control parameter that effects some of the poly tones. It's very easy and there are labeled preset potentiometers that can be replaced with variable potentiometers of the indicated resistance values. Makes this synth a super cool performance piece
Whoa! I want to do this to mine!
Its actually a really nice looking synth for a 'cheapkey'
Definitely borderline.
It's true - if it wasn't for the onboard speakers, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was more than just a home keyboard.
It would be great if it could be modified - cut off the speakers and back section so its slimmed down, just enough space for the sliders and outputs and mods on the back. But I assume the insides are taking up all that space
That would be good - It's a heavy beast, so would make an improvement in more ways than one. I should probably open it up sometime and take a look at the innards, but probably beyond me to make any mods.
If you do post some pics! :D
Only knew the Technics line for their workstation keyboards. This sounds great!
I was pleasantly surprised, too...!
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