Crumar Organizer 2 repair tips and demo part 1

[shookstylez]

HOLY SCHMOLY!!! I would love to make music with this thing! Great video.

[sounddoctorin]

@shookstylez I know someone who might sell a T3 which is similar without the rhythm section. It may need some work..I'll see when I'm on the road in a few weeks here hopefully.

[blackhat81]

Hi guys! Good job! I have an organizer 2 too!

but its percussion section (volume and decay) doesn't work properly because if I play any key I hear the note and a strange kind of reverb. It ends when I switch percussion off or I push the volume resistor to 0 level. Any idea of how fix the problem? I haven't the schematics of this instrument. Thank you!

[sounddoctorin]

@blackhat81 Wish I could help on that. From the description it's a little tough to tell what it might be. Look for any electrolytic capacitors in the area that might need replacing always. Like I say so many were bad in that one we worked on. It sounds like it might be a leaky capacitor where it's extending the envelope way out on the percussion. I dunno.

[blackhat81]

@sounddoctorin Thank you Bob. I'll be patient and I will try with the help of my multimeter... Bye!

[blackhat81]

@sounddoctorin Thank you Bob! I'll be patient and I will try with the help of my multimeter... Bye!

[blackhat81]

@sounddoctorin Thank you Bob, i'll be patient and I will try with the help of my multimeter... Regards!

[sounddoctorin]

@blackhat81 Yeah an ESR (Equiv. Series resistance) meter is required to tell if capacitors are going bad w/out pulling them and checking leakage and capacitance. Very handy tool..highly recommend getting one.

[blackhat81]

@sounddoctorin Yes, I got it! 

[VintageBlake]

Kick ass Video! Nice Demo! I think i'll start jam'n in my driveway too

[Tonewheeldude]

Wery cool!Sold a Organizer to Jazz group "Oddjob" recently.

Regards Fr Sweden.

[LucBenOuiLuc]

Wow, just amazing stuff. Can't wait to have mine finally repaired. What is Mr.Hagen playing at 2:47? Great stuff to here on this organ!

[theDarkMechanics]

sounds great! lots of fun

[sounddoctorin]

I...think you are asking if I can make Organ pedals? Uhh..no that isn't something I've tried. Usually they are plenty easy to scrap out of old organs :-). THIS organ is designed to interface with pedals but we didn't have them with it. Not sure how easy it would be to adapt an arbitrary set of pedals onto it.

[danielpaq]

your organ pedals you can make? and how it serves those accompaniments of this organ