Tom Mods
Posted: Apr 6th, '17, 19:31
I've been experimenting a liitle bit with the NAVA Toms (specifically with the MidTom) the last 2 days.
I never really liked the Tom sound of the 909. It always sounded overloaded to me, so I decided to do some tests removing one or another 'ingredient' of the final sound.
Here are some recordings I made:
Recordings are named after the ingredients. These are the ingredients of the Toms:
-VCO1..3
-Noise
-Burst (a short clipping attack of VCO1)
Secondly I made some tests adding pots to VCO1..3 (installed between clipping diodes and 2k2 Resistors R165/R167/R176 with Pin3 to GND) and Noise (same just before 22k Resistor R177).
Unfortunately the VCO Pots do not just attenuate levels but also change the particular waveform, from sine to slightly clipped sine.
Nevertheless the mod is quite simply that way and I really like some of the results!
Interested about your thoughts....
I never really liked the Tom sound of the 909. It always sounded overloaded to me, so I decided to do some tests removing one or another 'ingredient' of the final sound.
Here are some recordings I made:
Recordings are named after the ingredients. These are the ingredients of the Toms:
-VCO1..3
-Noise
-Burst (a short clipping attack of VCO1)
Secondly I made some tests adding pots to VCO1..3 (installed between clipping diodes and 2k2 Resistors R165/R167/R176 with Pin3 to GND) and Noise (same just before 22k Resistor R177).
Unfortunately the VCO Pots do not just attenuate levels but also change the particular waveform, from sine to slightly clipped sine.
Nevertheless the mod is quite simply that way and I really like some of the results!
Interested about your thoughts....