JohnnyBusca
rocket scientist
Op de synthesizers.com mailinglist is een interessante discussie gaande over de verschillen tussen verschillende Q107s (filters)
http://www.synthesizers.com/q107.html
Bij verschillende productie modellen begint ie bij stand 3 al flink te resoneren en tussen 5 en 10 hoor je geen verschillen meer. Bij andere, waarschijnlijk, oudere modellen is dat niet of minder het geval. Blijkbaar is het ook niet via een trimmer af te stellen.
Hebben mensen hier in nederland daar ook ervaring mee?
Wellicht een idee om hier te posten of je er last van hebt en uit welk jaar je Q107 komt?
http://www.synthesizers.com/q107.html
Bij verschillende productie modellen begint ie bij stand 3 al flink te resoneren en tussen 5 en 10 hoor je geen verschillen meer. Bij andere, waarschijnlijk, oudere modellen is dat niet of minder het geval. Blijkbaar is het ook niet via een trimmer af te stellen.
Hebben mensen hier in nederland daar ook ervaring mee?
Wellicht een idee om hier te posten of je er last van hebt en uit welk jaar je Q107 komt?
> 1. Resonance: it starts to "whistle" just below three. I cant
> discern any difference between 5 and 10. I find the most useful
> range for resonance between 0.5 and 2. I didnt expect this.
Neither did I, both my Q107's do this as well, everything happens
between 0.5 and 3. IMO not very comfortable, especially in live
situations. The strange thing is that my friend Marcel Engels who
has also a Q107 does not have this "too early" resonance problem,
it begins to oscillate at about 7 or 8 and sounds very very Moog like.
Awesome when you realize its in fact "just" a 12 db multimode.
His Q107 is about a year earlier than mine, so I'm beginning to think
that there are two versions which have different internal components.
I have had no other than Bert Vermeulen (technician of Synton and
creator of the Fenix) have a look at one of my Q107 and it seems
there is no way you can tweak the scale of the resonance yourself
internally as there is no trimmer on the PCB. It seems the resonance
is regulated by an IC, so I suspect older versions use a different brand
IC, perhaps Roger can tell us something about it. Anyway, to
compensate the early selfoscillation problem of my Q107 there was
a 100k resistor installed between the resonance pot and the PCB that
has overcome the problem, it functions smoother now. Because it
worked, I will have the other one done as well. But you have to be
carefull, a resistor higher than 100k could prevent the Q107 to
selfoscillate at all. And in your case, render the warranty useless.
> 2. The Q107 does not really "do" sub-bass. When the lowpass is
> driven low enough, even with resonance, it gets thumpy in kind of a
> muddy way.
I noticed that too, and the installement of the 100k resistor didn't
fix that particular "problem". Although I'm not too bothered about it
as I have two Q150's as well. And these Q150's are simply
*gorgious* with that great Moog like sound and have a perfectly
good resonance range. They begin to oscillate at about setting 7.5
to 8, just how it supposed to be, IMO.

