Clean to Mean Rack Tones 12/27/25

[Code001]

Speaking of your rig, @mentoneman , do you have a solution to jacked encoders on the DL8000R besides swapping the warp encoder over? Not sure if you can easily clean them; I thought they were fully sealed, but I haven't taken a good look inside. If you email Korg, they say they're long discontinued, and I can't seem to find a part that exists to replace it with on Mouser or Digikey. Vaguely recall you had work on yours done a couple years back?

 

[mentoneman]

Speaking of your rig, @mentoneman , do you have a solution to jacked encoders on the DL8000R besides swapping the warp encoder over? Not sure if you can easily clean them; I thought they were fully sealed, but I haven't taken a good look inside. If you email Korg, they say they're long discontinued, and I can't seem to find a part that exists to replace it with on Mouser or Digikey. Vaguely recall you had work on yours done a couple years back?

https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetai...nUbLm6cJNloXuYKBw==&countrycode=US¤cycode=USD

the shaft diameter is a little different than the original but my repair tech got it to fit no problem.

i cannot tell you how much nicer life is with perfectly functioning encoders on that box!

he had to throw in the towel on my H3000 through so looks like i have to send that one to Beamish or Foley and pray it comes back to life and not a fortune!!!

 

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https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Bourns/PEC11L-4220K-S0015?qs=Zq5ylnUbLm6cJNloXuYKBw==&countrycode=US¤cycode=USD

the shaft diameter is a little different than the original but my repair tech got it to fit no problem.

i cannot tell you how much nicer life is with perfectly functioning encoders on that box!

he had to throw in the towel on my H3000 through so looks like i have to send that one to Beamish or Foley and pray it comes back to life and not a fortune!!!

Thank you!!

Also, please don't send it to Beamish. He's really bad lately. Check out the latest reports on them. Foley is great, but they're $$$. If you do decide to do it, definitely get the transformer mod done. That will solve a good 90% of the issues. Maybe also get a new screen soldered in, and make sure you get the H3500 upgrade for all the presets if you haven't already.

 

[mentoneman]

Thank you!!

Also, please don't send it to Beamish. He's really bad lately. Check out the latest reports on them. Foley is great, but they're $$$. If you do decide to do it, definitely get the transformer mod done. That will solve a good 90% of the issues. Maybe also get a new screen soldered in, and make sure you get the H3500 upgrade for all the presets if you haven't already.

thank you for that wisdom!
if they can bring it back to life i definite want the power supply mod, display screen and 3500 rom upgrade done.

 

[mentoneman]

speaking of DL8000 how nice would this have been to have around when first digging into the edit menu?

 

[mentoneman]

inside the DL - Value and Warp encoders exposed to show how they connect to the small dedicated PCB with attached wire terminal

after thinking a bit, it might be that the replacement encoder shafts are a little longer not wider…increasing the shear risk.

 

[harddriver]

ok VH fans i’ve never seen this before-
iso’s of Ed’s fabled celestion + ?? speaker cab mics from the VH1 session!!??

@harddriver as the resident RT VH guy is this old news??

I listened to some of it and it does sound like a new isolated clip of the track different from what I have hear. Seem like less effects on the guitar amp tones and the amp sounds less raspy and aggressive than what we hear on the final mix for sure.

I listened to his entire clip and it seemed he found two speaker tracks, one on axis (brighter) and one off axis (darker) but he didn't broach the JBL thing.

It was cool to listen to Mentoneman, thanks for posting that.............you know I love the obscure deep dive VH stuff..........

 

[Code001]

inside the DL - Value and Warp encoders exposed to show how they connect to the small dedicated PCB with attached wire terminal

This was a huge help, thank you! Didn't realize they had dedicated boards per pot. This makes replacement so much easier than I expected!

 

[mentoneman]

I listened to some of it and it does sound like a new isolated clip of the track different from what I have hear. Seem like less effects on the guitar amp tones and the amp sounds less raspy and aggressive than what we hear on the final mix for sure.

I listened to his entire clip and it seemed he found two speaker tracks, one on axis (brighter) and one off axis (darker) but he didn't broach the JBL thing.

It was cool to listen to Mentoneman, thanks for posting that.............you know I love the obscure deep dive VH stuff..........

ok good i’m not nuts

yeah sounds like raw individual gtr mic tracks he’s pulling up with some echoplex delay printed during performance and prior to Donn & Ted mixing in the legendary Sunset Sound reverb.

the magic room at 7:25



yikes!