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  • @ming57 Haha, thanks. It has held up very well, I have had to do minor work to it but nothing serious.

  • I'm glad to be back in your bedroom...

  • @noizy4 Haha, thank you, I have moved since these videos and now have a music room, it is just not the same. I have to catch myself now from saying, "Welcome back to my bedroom", on my videos now.

    Take care,

    Jareth

  • Brilliant videos, it's great to see your enthusiasm for the poly!! It's a shame there arnt too many left now, keep up the great work buddy

  • @dalester82 Thank you very much, I do enjoy working on these synths very much, they can get a bit overwhelming at times, but it is unique and I do love the sounds.

    Take care my friend,

    Jareth 

  • Alabama vs LSU brought me here. Good luck next week with the Tigers. Cool Keyboard man. I wish I could play that.

  • @sadalite Cool! Thank you very much for stopping by.

    Take care,

    Jareth

  • You're from Alabama, right? That is so cool brother! I am amazed to see such an intelligent, and musical gifted individual. You seem like a fine young man. Keep it up brother, you are a true inspiration to the synth-playing community! God Bless you!

  • @MrGeorgios2020 Yes, I am from Alabama. Thank you very much, It is always nice to hear from people like you.

    Take care and god bless,

    Jareth

  • I love this polymoog sound...but i have a problem.

    For repair my polymoog, i need a substitution composants. Have you got ideas SYNTHPRO? ( integrate circuit "MM5823" and ''DM 7670'' for card) Thanks very much...

  • @nickon33 Yes, in my third video, (which is called synthpro's polymoog video # 3) I talk about this problem and I have a web address up as well. the name of the company is flat keys.

    Hope this helps,

    Jareth

  • Man, you are amazing!!! I am inspired and I commend you. You truly know your stuff brother!!! God Bless You

  • @MrGeorgios2020 THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!

    God Bless,

    Jareth

  • @synthpro Hi Jareth, I hope the restoration is going well!! I love that keyboard as I am a huge fan of Gary Numan. I always thought it was a synthesizer, since the sounds are so amazing. Vox Humana is probably one of the most incredible synth sounds ever. It sounds so mysterious and huge. Man your accent is so cool. You must be from the South or Texas or something. God Bless you brother!!!

  • BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation! Good luck with it put some stuff up when it's done!

  • I'm sure it's happy to have a new owner that will love it and tuck it in at night.

  • Nice!!! Good luck restoring it! : )

  • @ryanspeed Thank you!

  • Hadn't realised the Polymoog Keyboard could produce such sexy phat sounds!

  • @JohnnyTheWolfLupino Yes, the polymoog can produce some phat sounds. It has a sound that I can't explain.

    Thanks for watching!

  • Wow you know your stuff and as I say very interesting. How do you know what to look for what you've found wrong with it? My word very technical you are but I wouldn't know where to start so you've hit the jack pot as they say as you know what your talking about indeed so well done & good luck with it as it sounds like you're almost there. Cheers!

  • @bestrickie2 Thank you! Well, I can tell where some of the problems are by what it does. Once I troubleshoot then I start by testing the voltages first to make sure the circuit is getting the right amount of voltage and current. It is not always easy finding the problem on something this size, but once you get an understanding of what each circuit does, it makes it a little easier. The only problem when working on something as old as the polymoog is trying to find some of the parts.

  • Well done, please keep me posted about your hard work on your moog. What else needs doing to it? Please add more videos Cheers from Rich

  • @bestrickie2 I sure will. Right now I am rebuilding the Reference Oscillator board (TL board). I have a thermal short somewhere on the board and it burnt one of the AC filtering capacitors. I am going to go on and replace all the op amps, transistors, Phase lock loop IC's, and a few logic IC's. It should be very stable in tuning and have a lot cleaner sound. I rebuilt all the other boards, but this one still worked so I left it like it was.

  • Well done & please keep me posted about your hard work on your moog. What else needs doing to it? Cheers from Rich

  • Well done & please keep me posted. What else needs doing to it? Cheers!

  • Hi, I wish I was there to help you even if I fitted the covers on to the switches & so on but I would be no good at knowing what parts you'd need but I'd love to have helped you get it going again. Is it complete now? Cheers from Rich

  • @bestrickie2 It was a fun and exciting.

    It is complete, but I actually am doing some more repairs to it this summer that will make it trouble free.

  • Well done you've worked hard on it & just about there I see. Once you've got the Op oms you need it will be sorted for at least another 30 years or even more. Well done I'd love to have been there to see you revamp it & I'd love to have given you a hand but you'd have to keep me right as I wouldn't have a clue but WOW, I would be ever so interested. Cheers & well done again!

  • @bestrickie2 Thank you. Yes, it would have been neat if you could have given me a hand. I had one of my friends help me with it. He cleaned the inside while I worked on the electronics outside the unit. We had a good time.

  • Hi Jareth I though it was you. So have you finished brushing up the moog? Wow you know what you're doing & I'm sure it's paid off well. I'd love to see a video of the finished revamped moog & how you put the finishing touches to it & what parts you needed. Indeed you mentioned some of the new parts you needed & that were interesting. I look forward to future videos Cheers!

  • @bestrickie2 Yes, the only thing I am still having some trouble with is preset volumes. Some presets are louder than others, but I think it is just some bad Op amps. I have replaced a couple but I am just buying a few at a time. I do have another video on youtube of the restoration. type in Synthpro's polymoog (during restoration). I wrote the song on the polymoog.

  • Hi there is this Jareth Lackey? if so, hi its Rickie from the UK you've emailed a few times & it's a pleasure to have done so. Your brave attempting to restore the polly moog your got from ebay. Yes, that's one of the synths Gary Numan uses. I'd LOVE to get those sounds. As I was saying, I'm after a Juno G that has at least one of the sounds that's like what Gary uses. If this is Jareth then hi mate I email you soon, good luck with sorting that moog you know what your doing. Cheers!

  • @bestrickie2 Hi rickie. Yes, this is Jareth Lackey. Thank you, it is has been a pleasure talking to you as well. It did take a lot to restore this beast. It took me about three months to get this synth back in shape. It was a very challenging project.

    Good luck with the Juno G!

    Jareth

  • How much did you pay for yours?

    And how much money did you spend repairing it?

    Have you ever thought of repairing analog synths for a full time job?

    Damn good money in there and much in demand

    Thanks

  • This model was borne out of the Apollo, a model part of the Constellation group of synths Moog planned to release in 1974 (the others were the monophonic Lyra and the Taurus bass pedal synth; only the Taurus made the cut under its name).

  • @ClassicTVMan81 That is correct. Dr. Dave Luce was the engineer behind the polymoog. It came out in this order: Apollo prototype (Keith Emerson used on Brain Salad Surgery along with the Lyra), Polymoog synthesizer (203a), and the the Polymoog keyboard (280a). It is interesting to me because moog had so many design changes they had to make to the 203a.

    Thanks for the comment!

  • You sir have great taste. May I ask if you are a prodoge of the Late Delia Derbyshire? John Baker? Silver Apples, White Noise, Broadcast, & have you heard of EMS Synths?

  • @therealKINDLE Thank you very very much! I do like the bands you brought up. Yes, I have heard of EMS. I would like to have a Synthi AKS or a VCS3. Those are neat little synths that can do some crazy stuff!

    Thanks for watching and take care,

    Jareth

  • Where the hell you got Korg Radias from ? You´re my man, you have passion for analog synthesizers...

  • I got the radias from Zzounds. Thank you!

  • wow, this is great! revive it!

  • Thanks! It is working now.

  • I just managaed to get a vox humana patch for my Fantom X7. Its taken me 30 years to get this sound...!

    Fair play to you synthpro, just watched all your vids on your Polymoog. Good work, thanks for posting these up.

    Best wishes

    VC

  • Great, the wait is over.

    Thank you far watching and for the comment!

    Take care,

    Jareth

  • many years ago i had the chance of buying gary numan's polymoog keyboard-but was looking to get the polymoog synthesiser instead.. ended up with neither!! kicking myself for passing up the opportunity-i was/ am so dumb!! Ps i take my hat off to you, that looks quite some project- but well worth it- best of luck to you..

  • You are not dumb! We all make mistakes.

    I appreciate your kind words! I got it restored and now it is great!

    I wish you luck with finding a Polymoog synth!

    Thanks for watching!

  • good job.  Didn't realize the polymoog was a full size keyboard (88keys). nice Christmas lights. Looking forward to watch the next set of videos

  • Thanks! Yes, it is a full keyboard, but it actually only has 72 keys. Ha, you like my Christmas lights. I put those up two years ago and liked them so much I just left them up. It gives the keyboards a nice glow.

    Thanks for watching!

    Take care,

    Jareth

  • Once it's restores can you go through all the sounds? That would be great...

  • It is now restored. I may try to put a video together sometime this week.

    Thanks for watching!

  • You should post a video of the restored polymoog if you have not already! Great work!

  • thank you! I actually am working on getting one up soon. I do have some more videos that follow this one

    Thanks for watching!

  • Cool vid,hope you restore it and enjoy it.Its a great underated synth.

  • Thank you! I have got it restored now and love it.

    Thanks for watching!

  • hope you got it for a song, you are in for a ride.....

  • Oh yes, I got this thing to play and am amazed by the power it now has!!!!

    Thanks for watching!

  • your like inspector gadget...got that southern accent..can you build me a mini space ship dude..

  • Ha ha, I would build you one if I knew how!

    Thanks for watching!

  • it would be great to own a polymoog someday too though i probably never will. they cost a small fortune to buy and then also to maintain

  • I honestly never thought I would own one either. I had tried several times to win other ones off ebay, but I had no luck. Finally after years of bidding I got this one. I got it for $330.00. I would hate to have to pay someone by the hour to do everything I have done to this one. It would be a lot more than what I paid for the whole unit.

  • DBC are probably the initials of the person who inspected the syth before it left the factory to be sold.

    If your confident about your repair skills

    you could probably make some money off of fixing old sythns(just advertise on ebay)

    , people do it for ps3's and xbox's.

  • You are probably right about the initals.

    I have been thinking about one day starting up a vintage synth repair shop, but I am going to wait until I get through college. I would like to know a little more before working on someone else's vintage synth.

    Thanks for watching!

  • i love the way polymoog synthesis works, you start with a preset and make into a work of art, kind of like making a scuplture out of a block of stone

  • I do too. It was a lot better than having to start from scratch like you did on the minimoog model D. That is the next synth I am going to try to find.

    Thanks for watching!

  • the next synth i buy will likely be a korg polysix

  • Oh yes, Those are great synths! I would not mind having one of those as well. I have a Korg Radias which has a the best analog sound for a digital synth, but it is not a polysix.

    Wish you the best of luck getting one!

  • Update, I got the schematics and got all the LEDs working for the VAR/PRE selector switches. I also re soldered all the joints on every board and am now getting a nice noise free sound. I am still working on the sustain problem.

  • OMG!!!! It's an Original PolyMoog!!!!!!!!! O_O i think that's the exact PolyMoog Used in "Gary Numan Cars" 5/5 Awesome

  • Thank you! This is the model Polymoog that Gary Numan used. He used this one and the synth model a lot.

    Thanks for watching!

  • i have some new 10k sliders ,ive 2 polymoog factory road kits

  • nice to see you got your polymoog! btw, i doubt you'll find a 10kohm 'slide'. behind the slider is a potentiometer that adjusts the voltage/current. Is the slide actually broken or is it the potentiometer behind it? Pots are easy to find, but not quite sure they come in the same form-factor as they did in the 70's. Good luck!! btw, its my polymoog that shaped my career as an electrical engineer =]

  • Thank you! You are right, it is going to be hard to find a 10k ohm slide. The slide is broke. somthing knocked into the slide during shipment and destroyed it. It cracked the back of the slide in half. I am learning a lot working on the polymoog. I am majoring in electronis. If it was not for some of the classes I have taken and a good tech book than I would be stuck.

    Thanks for watching!

  • WOW Gary Numan used this!!!!! WOW

  • It is cool because you can see this synth in Gary Numan's cars video.

    Thanks for watching!

  • It's cool because you can HEAR it in his music! It's so great you have the instrument! Good luck with it,

    Greetings from The Netherlands

  • It is different from any other synth I have worked with. Thank you!

  • That is a great video! I wish moog would re design the polymoog with todays circuit technology. That would be great. They are not as bad as people say. I found that if you re solder all the joints on the boards it plays a lot better. It is a lot of work, but it works. That is what I have been doing the last few days with one board. Your right, there is a lot of Vox Humana in Pleasure Principle. It is still a good album.

    Thanks for watching!

  • Hi Synth, excellent you getting hold of a PM. Good luck with your restoration, I'm in the middle of restoring mine as we speak. If you need a copy of the full service manual let me know.

  • Alfred Deblasi was my first Polymoog video. The meowing at the neighbor's door was classic. The Italian personality set the tone. I wish that they would come out with a virtual polywog, as I call it. I noticed a 203 with a serial above 3000 on ebay for a grand. I also bought some Numan CDs after listening to your version of AFE. Nice stuff, most of it. Pleasure Principle uses the Vox Humana a bit much, though. He has good beats and riffs.

  • Congrats on your find! All the old Moogs are projects with parts that are hard to find, but so interesting to work on.

  • Awesome! Good to see others collecting and restoring analog gear! 5 Stars

  • thank you!

  • I got to give it to man, your a genies if u pull it of....lol not that I doubt it but you should be working for a repair shop like Sam ash or Guitar center or some thing....

  • I do not know if you could call me a genies or not. I just enjoy working on electronics and playing music. I am majoring in electronics at college. That helps.

    Thanks for watching

  • WHAT A FIND!!  To find that machine in that good of condition was a stroke of luck! I can't wait to hear it after your restoration is complete. Good luck with your new project :)

    Need parts?? Try calling Moog Music INC at 1 800 948 1990. I'm sure they can help you.

    Btw.. if you call, be sure to order one of their official MOOG t shirts...they're awesome!

    *****

    64m >:-)

  • I still can't believe I got it in this shape for $300.00 USD!

    The people at moog music are nice. I called them when I was having problems with my Little Phatty. Turns out I had a bad ground in my power strip. It was causing controls to change on its own.

  • 300 bucks!!!!! I just fell out of my chair ;) Way to go, Dude!

    Ground problems are the root of all evil ;)

    64m >:-)

  • I fell out of my chair when I seen that I had won on ebay.

    You got that right! I have tested the ground on each board and it seems to be fine. But it is like any old used equipment, you do not know what has been hooked to it.

  • Congratulations with your purchase. But it seems an awefull lot of work to get it all in working order again. Really like to own a synthesizer version one day.

  • Thanks, It is going to be a lot of work, but it is worth it to me. I would like to have a synth model too. I can already tell you that this thing is limited. What presets it does have are cool.

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