Thank you for making this video @JorbLovesGear. I botched a Tauntek upgrade on my AX-60 recently, and it stopped booting up a week after I completed the mod. I guess my soldering skills aren't quite up to par. Bell Tone Synth Works got it running again, and took care of many issues I had been having for over 10 years. This was my first synth, and I never plan on selling it. It's nice to have it restored to its former glory.
Great video! Years ago I worked in a music store for ten years or so, about 2001-2011. Anyway we had a repair shop on site. I like to repair things myself, but our repair tech really knew what he was doing. I'd often discuss things he was working on. There was always an AX60 in the corner, leaning against the wall, fader caps missing, obviously a work in progress. I forget exactly what happened, but around the time that repair tech was leaving I was offered some things that were left over, uncollected repairs and so on. One was the AX60, which I took home and still have, unrepaired. It has all it's fader caps and screws inside in a bag, and there are two boards of the same type, looked like a replacement board was tried, and I have both. Anyway the story at the time was that he had not been able to fix it, and had sent it to another repairer who couldn't fix it, and it got sent back, and the original owner was slack about collecting it over a long period of time, and eventually died. I've never actually put everything back into place and tried to turn it on and test it - but honestly it's entirely likely mine is haunted also.
@Jorb Those are so big and bulky! lol. Mine forgot all the presets once it turns off, it wasn't the battery, so I had to load all the patches doing the 'tape in & out' data dump everytime I wanted to use the damn thing or save my custom presets XD. The size and complication made me sell that unit but man, I miss those BOC type warble oscillations!
Those of us who own any old synths know this story way too well. We all have that one synth that's been through a journey to get it repaired. I have a Yamaha CS-01 - a $400-500 synth at most - that went through at least three techs and promises of being able to repair it before I landed upon my final tech, who managed to fix it within a month. He is now my guy and I won't ever let him quit the synth repair game. That journey took nearly ten years and nearly $1,000 total spent on something that initially cost me $200 Canadian. This is all because I wanted to put a MIDI kit in it - which I had to replace exactly three times because various people (including myself) blew it up. I hope you kept the AX-60. It's a lovely and quirky thing! I have an AX73 and it will stay with me forever.
I bought mine new from Sam Ash in Paramus NJ in 1985 for $500. In 1985 dollars that was a lot. I sold it in 2015 on eBay for $500, and I've been kicking myself ever since. I really enjoyed that synth. Thanks for the walk back through time.
This was awesome. I own an AX60, and while I've been lucky that it has mostly worked without any serious issues, I also feel like there is something very mysterious and spooky about it. I like to think all AX60s are a bit haunted, even when not broken and screaming on an ominous patch number.
Great story! You should have gotten 10k of views by now and as many likes. James Drone also did a video on a haunted synth a while ago, but it was by far not as scary as your story. Keep up the great work! 👍 Love and light from sunny Thailand 🇹🇭
Jorb, this is some right gassed-out n+1 axe-digging boardhoarder knobtwiddling synthpiler tablehooting circuitbent injoke-ridden comedy gold, dude. I think I´m witnessing the birth of a genre here, along the lines of "noiretblancvie" [sic] earnestly synthologising jexus-olo-garb but with actual fun and jokes included. Keep ´em comin baby! Can I also share a tale or two? What´s a smooth way to learn DaVinci? Congrats bro!!
High praise, really appreciate the work that went into this comment, it's one for the wall. I HOPE it's the start of something more! DaVinci hasn't really been intuitive for me, honestly, I've been watching videos, & saving a lot.
I love the 'true crime/Unsolved Mysteries' vibe of this, and also that the subject matter regards something I don't see many current videos about. I've had my 60 for just over a month, and thankfully haven't had to go through what you did, but the resonance on the filter is very, very special. Also, I liked that when you got it back, its case had more locks on it. Nice.
I'm editing now a sort of technical look at the ax60, happy to hear from someone else who has one. Do you find a lot of use for it, what do you end up using it for?
@@JorbLovesGear I love the filter on this, and once I get my rig up and running, I would use it for either pads (I'm fond of the noisy chorus) or the arpeggiator. What makes this odd little polysynth interesting to me is the way it lets you manually allocate voices to an upper or lower part, and each can respond to a different Midi Channel. I bought mine because Body of Light used one, but then I learned new ways to love it, myself. Some people have called it "cold" or "sterile". . .I'd save those descriptors for the AX-80 (which I also have, but am having a problem getting fixes.) I hope any of this helps. Oh, and my AX-60 has the Tauntek upgrade.
@@Michael_Smith-Red_No.5 very similar to my thoughts, I keep describing it as feature rich. I'm very curious about the tauntek mod, did you get the unit with it installed? Or did you experience it before & after?
Cool video you did!! I really enjoyed it very much! I have two AX-60’s and I love them so much! I’ve had them now for about 10 years, I bought the first one in Chicago for $130 and the second AX-60 I bought for $300 , but I had to drive to Indianapolis to pick it up. I found a 3rd one that included the MD280 disk drive and the S612 sampler. I kept the disk drive and sampler, but gave my friend the AX-60 caused i owed him some. If you can look for the sampler once you plug it in to the AX-60 it becomes more fierce and scary!!!
@@JorbLovesGear It's fine on crappy bezos tablet speakers, pointed at the bed. Don't fall prey to the macho mastering, loudness wars hype. There's volume controls for a reason!
I wish i didnt need to pay someone else to have it fixed, but yes. And they did an exceptional job. A few things! incompatible chips were used as drop in replacements, the power supply was rebuilt, because it had drifted so far out of spec, and lots of sticky nonworking buttons.
Thank you for making this video @JorbLovesGear. I botched a Tauntek upgrade on my AX-60 recently, and it stopped booting up a week after I completed the mod. I guess my soldering skills aren't quite up to par. Bell Tone Synth Works got it running again, and took care of many issues I had been having for over 10 years.
This was my first synth, and I never plan on selling it. It's nice to have it restored to its former glory.
Great video! Years ago I worked in a music store for ten years or so, about 2001-2011. Anyway we had a repair shop on site. I like to repair things myself, but our repair tech really knew what he was doing. I'd often discuss things he was working on. There was always an AX60 in the corner, leaning against the wall, fader caps missing, obviously a work in progress. I forget exactly what happened, but around the time that repair tech was leaving I was offered some things that were left over, uncollected repairs and so on. One was the AX60, which I took home and still have, unrepaired. It has all it's fader caps and screws inside in a bag, and there are two boards of the same type, looked like a replacement board was tried, and I have both. Anyway the story at the time was that he had not been able to fix it, and had sent it to another repairer who couldn't fix it, and it got sent back, and the original owner was slack about collecting it over a long period of time, and eventually died. I've never actually put everything back into place and tried to turn it on and test it - but honestly it's entirely likely mine is haunted also.
Oh great story. I bet theres hundreds of keyboards with about that same story, just time got the best of them
Damn, how can a singular video be so good. I'm stunned this video only has like 30 views wtf
Thanks so much! Fingers crossed it keeps climbing
10/10 would resonate again
When you ripped the plug out of the wall!! So Good:) love this video
Great video! About 6 years ago I had my own haunted experience with an Akai AX73, those boards are hard to fix for sure...
I love the look of those, would love to have one someday. Similar experience, just no luck?
@Jorb Those are so big and bulky! lol. Mine forgot all the presets once it turns off, it wasn't the battery, so I had to load all the patches doing the 'tape in & out' data dump everytime I wanted to use the damn thing or save my custom presets XD.
The size and complication made me sell that unit but man, I miss those BOC type warble oscillations!
Those of us who own any old synths know this story way too well. We all have that one synth that's been through a journey to get it repaired.
I have a Yamaha CS-01 - a $400-500 synth at most - that went through at least three techs and promises of being able to repair it before I landed upon my final tech, who managed to fix it within a month. He is now my guy and I won't ever let him quit the synth repair game. That journey took nearly ten years and nearly $1,000 total spent on something that initially cost me $200 Canadian. This is all because I wanted to put a MIDI kit in it - which I had to replace exactly three times because various people (including myself) blew it up.
I hope you kept the AX-60. It's a lovely and quirky thing! I have an AX73 and it will stay with me forever.
I bought mine new from Sam Ash in Paramus NJ in 1985 for $500. In 1985 dollars that was a lot. I sold it in 2015 on eBay for $500, and I've been kicking myself ever since. I really enjoyed that synth. Thanks for the walk back through time.
Cheers, it was fun to do. Great keyboard at that!
Loved this video, reminded me of syntaur. Really sweet piece of gear too.
Glad you enjoyed it! This is a sleeper favorite, according to some viewers. I learned a lot doing it!
One of my favorite synths! I got mine back in high school and it's affectionately named Axel. The filter is unreal - definitely haunted.
I might have to start calling mine the same thing! It has enough character to have earned a name, certainly.
This is awesome!!! More vids like this PLEASE 🙏🏾
I missed my deadlines for this years halloween episode, really sad I missed it
I about to put this on for the fam to watch. gold.
Oh my god 😅🙏🙏🙏
"hello my name is jorb and i love gear, today we are seeing how far my camera can zoom in to my glasses"
lmaoooo, even closer
This was awesome. I own an AX60, and while I've been lucky that it has mostly worked without any serious issues, I also feel like there is something very mysterious and spooky about it. I like to think all AX60s are a bit haunted, even when not broken and screaming on an ominous patch number.
Cool video!
We all have or had, or will have, a piece of old gear with some "" problems ""...
Chilling! Mainly because it's scarily close to reality.
Well done.
Great story! You should have gotten 10k of views by now and as many likes. James Drone also did a video on a haunted synth a while ago, but it was by far not as scary as your story. Keep up the great work! 👍 Love and light from sunny Thailand 🇹🇭
🙏🙏Thank you so much! Hope this makes it to 10k
You and Pure Ambient Drone are the only folks I've seen shoot vids about haunted synths. Good stuff, man!
I'll have to watch theirs!
The voice acting is the best!
This actually gave me chills like a real scary movie lol. Nice job!
😅😅Thanks, I've gotten much better since this
Just got around to watching. Awesome!
As soon as I sat down... it got worse. The kombucha I brewed had gone off... and I had just had a pint and a half.
Such a cool film! very entertaining
Great story :) Great show!
Great Fun man, you have my 60 And my Tascam cassette multi track! How did you...oh, sorry, they're still here 👽
lmaoo
Jorb that was great. Thanks for making my day. Synth sounds great. I'm glad it only took several souls for it to finally work! ( :
So glad you enjoyed it! It was a fun thing to work on. Cheers!
This is my kind of horror movie
Part two soon? 👀👀
Jorb Yess!
Jorb, this is some right gassed-out n+1 axe-digging boardhoarder knobtwiddling synthpiler tablehooting circuitbent injoke-ridden comedy gold, dude. I think I´m witnessing the birth of a genre here, along the lines of "noiretblancvie" [sic] earnestly synthologising jexus-olo-garb but with actual fun and jokes included. Keep ´em comin baby! Can I also share a tale or two? What´s a smooth way to learn DaVinci? Congrats bro!!
High praise, really appreciate the work that went into this comment, it's one for the wall.
I HOPE it's the start of something more!
DaVinci hasn't really been intuitive for me, honestly, I've been watching videos, & saving a lot.
Hilarious. Just watched again.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Grateful
thanks for the love and im on the ghost
I love the 'true crime/Unsolved Mysteries' vibe of this, and also that the subject matter regards something I don't see many current videos about. I've had my 60 for just over a month, and thankfully haven't had to go through what you did, but the resonance on the filter is very, very special. Also, I liked that when you got it back, its case had more locks on it. Nice.
I'm editing now a sort of technical look at the ax60, happy to hear from someone else who has one. Do you find a lot of use for it, what do you end up using it for?
@@JorbLovesGear I love the filter on this, and once I get my rig up and running, I would use it for either pads (I'm fond of the noisy chorus) or the arpeggiator. What makes this odd little polysynth interesting to me is the way it lets you manually allocate voices to an upper or lower part, and each can respond to a different Midi Channel. I bought mine because Body of Light used one, but then I learned new ways to love it, myself. Some people have called it "cold" or "sterile". . .I'd save those descriptors for the AX-80 (which I also have, but am having a problem getting fixes.) I hope any of this helps. Oh, and my AX-60 has the Tauntek upgrade.
@@Michael_Smith-Red_No.5 very similar to my thoughts, I keep describing it as feature rich. I'm very curious about the tauntek mod, did you get the unit with it installed? Or did you experience it before & after?
I purchased mine with the Tauntek preinstalled.
@@Michael_Smith-Red_No.5 at some point I hope to do a before & after, I should probably just bite the bullet! Cheers
Cool video you did!! I really enjoyed it very much!
I have two AX-60’s and I love them so much! I’ve had them now for about 10 years, I bought the first one in Chicago for $130 and the second AX-60 I bought for $300 , but I had to drive to Indianapolis to pick it up. I found a 3rd one that included the MD280 disk drive and the S612 sampler. I kept the disk drive and sampler, but gave my friend the AX-60 caused i owed him some. If you can look for the sampler once you plug it in to the AX-60 it becomes more fierce and scary!!!
Cheers thank you! I'm surprised this still gets much traffic. lol
I would love an S612, I'm starting to really come into my own as an akai fan boy.
@@JorbLovesGear you will love the fast editing of samples and the low for filters on the S612.
very nice
Cheers
you kinda need to up the vol on your audio bro
also i love your content so much lmao pls never stop
I've gotten better about that! But appreciate the feedback
@@JorbLovesGear It's fine on crappy bezos tablet speakers, pointed at the bed. Don't fall prey to the macho mastering, loudness wars hype. There's volume controls for a reason!
Good haunted fun
very funny and entertainment
my scoby smells bad
Epic!
🙏Still the most work I've put into any videos.
All for learning!
I think you need to go for a walk with your bontempi.
AmaZing!
Questions:
* Was worth the time and money invested for the synth?
* What was the reason behind the problem?
I wish i didnt need to pay someone else to have it fixed, but yes. And they did an exceptional job.
A few things! incompatible chips were used as drop in replacements, the power supply was rebuilt, because it had drifted so far out of spec, and lots of sticky nonworking buttons.
@@JorbLovesGear so was the company who fixed it...
Very entertaining. Great job! On your way to Chicago did you stop at the World's Largest Truckstop? I've slept there several times.
I did! What a landmark it is. Lol
Me when gear man went missing 😳
I could feel his spirit calling, the void whispered "this is not lit"
LOL
Your socks don't match, just sayin ;)