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SOLVED/Mod - PC-2 Decay range

Posted: Feb 25th, '19, 15:54
by serum114
The range of the decay pot seems to be at max by 12 o'clock. I see one other user mention this in another topic and am wondering if this has been experienced by anyone else? I presume the decay times can be modified but its the range concerning me most. All parts have been correctly identified including pots.

Re: PC-2 Decay range

Posted: Feb 26th, '19, 21:57
by serum114
Today I spent some time working on this and trying to get a better range with the pot with no success except finding that increasing C7 extends the decay - without effecting the range of the pot. I went with 10uf for now, its extra long but still snappy at fccw, still with a short range its not great.

Next I found a copy of the Boss service manual to confirm that the decay parts we have in the Yocoto are correct and I noticed 2 resistors are different R9 & R10 both 47k in the Yocoto where the Boss schem shows 4.7K (R14) & 4.7M (R16) both part of the decay circuit.

Tomorrow I will try these resistors and see if it effects the range.

can anyone confirm that they have a good working decay range? The one I'm working on is at its max by 11 O'clock and has nothing change after all the way cw.

Re: SOLVED - PC-2 Decay range

Posted: Feb 27th, '19, 13:04
by serum114
Change R9 to 47k and R10 to 820K. Keep C7 as 2.2uF. It became a bit of a play off between trig interference from the other instruments so I lowered R10 from 1.5M to 820k which gives a good pot range, minimal interference with a nice snappy decay through to extra long.

Re: SOLVED - PC-2 Decay range

Posted: Feb 27th, '19, 13:34
by KlangGenerator
serum114 wrote:Change R9 to 47k and R10 to 820K. Keep C7 as 2.2uF. It became a bit of a play off between trig interference from the other instruments so I lowered R10 from 1.5M to 820k which gives a good pot range, minimal interference with a nice snappy decay through to extra long.
Thanks for sharing! :)

Re: SOLVED/Mod - PC-2 Decay range

Posted: Feb 27th, '19, 13:52
by serum114
No problem. I couldn't bring myself to pass it on to its owner without working the issue out.

Re: SOLVED/Mod - PC-2 Decay range

Posted: Apr 13th, '20, 23:01
by j.colt
This is an awesome mod. Thank you!