Monday, March 20, 2017

Korg Volca Beats Snare Mod

Got hold of a used Korg Volca Beats recently, but soon discovered that the snare wasn't very nice... at all. Did some online searches and I soon found out about the missing capacitor C78!

A quick stop at ELFA to pick up some 100nF Ceramic Capacitors and a bit of soldering did the job, and the snare got much better sounding!


Unfortunately I accidentally destroyed one of the soldering points on the board, so I had to attach one leg of the cap to a component just beside it. Also got too close to one of the pots (Hat grain) with the soldering iron, melting it a bit...  and I had read some warnings from someone online who did the same thing. Oh well. It wasn't that bad after all.

My main goal was to have a switch for the capacitor to be able to select the original sound, and also to add a MIDI Out port, but as ELFA didn't have these components at the shop I just bought the caps.
Will do the MIDI Out mod some other time.

Cheers!

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