The DIY for repair, cleaning and Refurbishing a Roland VS-890 and VS-880 I think the easiest way to do this refurbish and DIY for another to repair their unit is…
Roland VS Recorders, MC-307 & MV-8000 MV8800 Transport button repair
Faulty Play Stop Record FF RW Buttons As these units age, more and more start showing up in “Great Condition, but being sold as/is”. Not knowing any better I hopped…
Cleaning Yellowed Knobs, Buttons, & Controls for Roland VS-890 VS-880
This procedure will also work for yellowed MC-303, MC-307, Etc. First off I have to give credit to 8-Bit Guy for this mod. 8-Bit Guy mainly focuses on old computers…
Roland VS890 VS880 Disassembly & Opened Up
Taking Apart & Opening a Roland VS-890 From the top to the bottom, bottom to the top. Pull out all the screws circled in pink and the the two screws…
Zoom RT-223 Internal Battery
Recently purchased a Zoom RT-223 drum machine from “jeff” on eBay. His listing said:POWERS UP SAYS ZOOM NOTHING WORKS.DO A FACTORY RESET, HOLD RECORD WILE POWERING UP IT WORKS FINE.BUT…
Roland VS-1824 Compact Flash Mod
This mod has been well documented over the years over hundreds of threads on the VS forums. The problem is you have to read hundreds of threads, comments, mis-information, etc….
Serato SL1 Box in Windows 10
Getting a Serato SL1 Box to work in Windows 10 For the life of me I could not get my old Serato box to work in Windows 10. The software…
Modded and Customized Korg Electribe EA-1
This turned out to be a cool little unit. So cool it has earned a place in my collection for the time being. Like most Electribes it had broken solder…
PlayStation 3 Fan Light Mod Part 2
Here comes our PS3 light mod! This B**ch is about to get lit. So we ended up picking up a blue 12v 16ft light strip from eBay for about ten…
PS3 Grill Mod
I have never been a gamer. In this new world corona covid b/s it had been inconceivably hard to keep coming up with shit for a 4 year old to…
ReCapping an Old Drum Machine Boss DR-5 Experiment
Boss DR-5 ReCap
DR-770 Replacement Battery DIY
Quick DIY for replacing the Battery in the Boss DR770 Drum Machine It’s amazing how many of these machines get given away for pennies when they are not working right,…
MPC 500 Pad Upgrade DIY
Fix those non-responsive MPC500 MKP25 MPK49 Pads! Quick DIY for fixing the velocity and pad sensitivity in the MPC 500, MPK 25 and MPK 49. Simply applying electrical tape will…
MPC-500 Tact Switches
Tact Switch Repair for the MPC500 MPC1000 and MPC2500 Fixing and replacing non-responsive tact switches can bring a dead worthless unit back to life. This does take a bit of…