>"Trash it and buy one that works. "
This is almost like a learning experience. Toward the end of the day, I had finally finished a Yorkville powered mixer that needed about a pound of solder, a giutar amp and a Crate head. So down to the last half hour I was "Well what now ?". Some of the cheaper keyboards can be fixed if all they need is some soldering or in a couple of cases the output chip of they have speakers. I've blown off quite a few better keyboards than that.
Had one that was stuck in sustain and that other thing, port something which akes it slide to the next note. That is without the pedals even plugged in. I traced the pulses all the way through the chips and shit and the micro is getting the proper pulses to NOT be in sustain and whatever, so that is blown off and it is a higher end Yamaha.
Being a store we get a little bit more than twenty bucks for something like this, but not alot. I'm hoping that there is some similarity to the good ones that are in fact, worth fixing. I'm figuring out how this stuff is put together.
In fact you could say that about all that stuff. I fixed TVs for decades, and I wasn't bad at it if I do say so myself. When their value went in the shitter I went on to bigscreens and specialised in that. Now, those $4,000 HD projos with the smartcard reader and hi def tuner and every concievable bell and whistle, you can't giv them away. Well you can and they do on Craigslist but only if they work. You can't get the cost of one STK 392 out of them anymore unless you find just the right buyer. Toward the end of my last TV job, best you could do was maybe a couple hundred. Maybe, and that's with a warranty. That's why I worked on the plasmas and LCDs. Of course the parts exceed the value of the set so, alot of those got blown off. The only thing people would really put money into was plasmas and I fixed a shitload of them. Alot of Ysus and buffers and power supplies. When it gets to the main board sometimes the thing goes in the boneyard and that's that.
Not that they have all that much money, but musicians are a little bit like (and I hate to use the term because I resemble it some) audiophools. They like the tube stuff, and even older solid state stuff.
It's wierd. At flat response I can hear the difference between my Pioneer 850 and POhase Linear 400/2. At flat response there should beno difference. I have checked them with a 1,000 Hz square wave and they both reproduce that perfectly art flat response/tone off. the other day my buddy brough ove two CD players, well changers and one was a DVD changer. He heard a difference between them.
Now come on, he is 66. I am 54 and my ears are shot. I have a hard time understand certain people, like with higher voices. Yet I can hear the difference between two amps. Why ? Is it because the damping factor is 1,000 on the Phase Linear ? Well that might have something to do with it but I am nopt using that audionut speaker wire so half of that dampindg factor i s spent in that resistance.
I have decided to try to expand that guy's business more into some high end audio. He is all for it it seems. I actually do some of that in my basement. On occasion I could take equipment there with me.
He made the case to me about that, and he's right. You have people who have mice expensive old equipment that you can't get anymore, they are alot more comfortable with taking it to a real brick and mortar rather than some guys garage. So he gets some of that profit for having the brick and mortar.
Again, I have been offered autonomy in this. Run it. Your money is separate, do whatever you want but either pay rent or pay rent by doing work for the company. I have turned down a half dozen offers like that, but this locartion is so damn good I am tempted. I just don't like those deals. I would have to stock up all the parts and all that. And honestly I do not know this business all that well yet. I am a quick study for sure, but I've only been in the business for about a month or so.
Really, I think the crossover between music equipment and high end audio would be smooth. Of course if we do that I have to have a talk with them about the shop stereo. I mean one of the "speakers" is a guitar amp. We can do better than that.
At least I am used to the high end audio beecause I did it as it came in at other shops and I am a bit of an afficianado. (sp) But music ? the other week in comes a keyboard. they call me to the floor and the guy is wearing sliver boots and, well, I would say wants to be a rhinestone cowboy or something like that. The USB jack on the keyboard is all frigged up. Well I said OK, he asks should he wait and I told him no, we do not have the jack, plus we have to see if the board is cracked or anything. Next couple days I order the jack, install it and I go to the counter guy and say hey, he should bring in the AC adapter so we can test this thing. He says no, that is a MIDI controller. Sure as shit, there is no audio output on it and no speakers.
Which brings up another question, which I will start a thread on. I have seruiously hiujacked my own thread here which is OK really. That Casio probably won't be fixed. No print means no part numbers. Elcheapo Casio means no parts probably at all. But if I could fix it, well that would be better than not, right ? Just not a high buck job. It happens. Sometimes I am working on something that is only worth twenty bucks, but if I can get it fixed fast, why not ?
Anyway, off to ask my question. Thanks all.