{"id":2657,"date":"2016-11-27T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T10:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.untergeek.de\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2017-01-03T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T09:12:18","slug":"a-new-glide-pot-for-jenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.untergeek.de\/de\/2016\/11\/a-new-glide-pot-for-jenny\/","title":{"rendered":"A new glide pot for Jenny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A bit of TLC for my oldest synthesizer: Jenny<\/a> is getting a new potentiometer. As the synth’s pots were rather cheap, open types that gather dust, and are 40 years old now, they have become all scratchy and jumpy. As I have mentioned before, I am not the greatest fan of Kontakt spray and similar solvents\/cleaners<\/a>, so I bought replacements. But I never found the time to actually replace them.<\/p>\n

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This knob is a good place to start: The „glide“ potentiometer is in charge of portamento, and it is one of the first things that might make Jenny fail (see Neil Johnson’s site)<\/a>. A faulty glide pot means that the synth will only ever play the same note regardless of which key you press. So I did replace that pot, which is pretty straightforward – you’ll find some pictures in this gallery. (It is a 2.2M linear type BTW.)<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t