Repair...
From the original Analog Industries archive. Some links and images from that era no longer resolve.
I need someone that knows how to work on Yamaha analogs for some repair work, generally on the west coast, but preferably in PDX or San Francisco. Also, is anyone aware of a source for Yamaha CS-style knobs?
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The border could present a problem although i am back and forth enough that if it works i could help out.
Try Backline in Vancouver:
http://www.backline.com/Repairs/about.html
Maybe the CS series is beyond their grasp but i am always surprised to find out the stuff they have repaired/restored for people i talk to.
hey there. Go on the analogueheaven mailing list, sign up and post the request there - it's a mecca for analogue repairs, esp. in the US.
http://machines.hyperreal.org/Analogue-Heaven/
Not sure if this is helpful, but you could try contacting this guy:
http://www.cs80.com/
A lot of techs won't touch old Yamahas, especially CS-80s. Some of the photos on that site show you why, it's a nightmare in there.
Greg Montalbano of http://analogsynthservice.com/ is supposed to be really good. There is someone in the Seattle area as well that I'm checking on.
If you search the AH archives, you'll note my first post there in January of 1998 (after I'd been reading the list for some 3 years), and my last post in December of 2006, during a conversation of absolutely epic stupidity, bread and butter for that list. To quote Sarah Palin, "thanks but no thanks." (Said with my best Alaska Hockey Mom accent.)
In any event, never mind the fact that this blog has roughly fifteen times the readership of AH, and never mind that I've long since banned from here all the fucking retards that still live and breath AH listserve bullshit, well, it's just not worth the effort. Those people are to musicians as car collectors are to taxi drivers.
-CR
Jeff, it's not a CS-80. I actually have a good friend that has tried to sell me his several times for a very reasonable price, but I look at cost of ownership in the equation, and the CS-80 goes in the FAIL column. It's a mere CS-5 that is the subject of this inquiry, a much, much simpler beast.
-CR
check soursound. they can pretty much fix anything.
http://www.soursound.com/
they're going through my mixer right now and also recapping it.
two guys there share the space.. Bryan Sour and a guy named Tim who does lot's of recapping and synth repair as well. last time i stopped by he was "modularizing" an oberheim 2 voice and fixing an arp2600
I have no hesitation in letting them work on anything. they're nice people too.
Ah, now that's what I was looking for. ;-) Thanks!
-CR
Chris,
Try Larry Church at mintlake@bctonline.com. He's in Clackamas. He worked on that Source (it wasn't the "crazy" Source PS problem either) you now own and a TR-606 of mine. He'll honestly tell you if he can work on it or not and he wasn't a flake.
I'll tell you who the guy to get it done is if you tell me who the guy is who's selling a reasonably priced CS-80. That seems fair. :-)
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