Scooter B
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Has anyone out there ever tried to upgrade a 3630 to something usable. I know your first question will probably be WHY?
Unfortunately I am in possession of two of these and have very little cash flow available for any new equipment (I hope to scrape up enough for an RNC). I picked up two used 3630's after seeing them advertised as an "industry standard". Having no experience with compressors, being new to home recording and reading about the importance of having compressors for mixing (especially bass guitar my main instrument) I trusted the good things I heard about Alesis. Untill I read the comments here on Home Recording.Com I though my awfull sounding results were due to simply my inexperience. Now I am somewhat wiser but also married with children and broke!
So this is my dilema and rather than using my 3630's for improving tire traction in the snow or target practice I thought I would throw a lifeline out there to see if any one has done upgrades/modifications to similiar pieces of equipment by replacing parts of the electronics and circuits to find any usefull, entertaining or redemptive value. I can do soldering etc. but I am not extremely knowlegable about what to try swapping out and what parts would cost.
Has anyone out ther tried this at home? I got the idea after looking at a web page for a guy that sells diagrams/schematics for upgrades to some pro level comercial pre-amps and sell kits to build your own pre-amps etc. I suppose I could try to sell them to some unwitting newbie but I would feel guilty.
Unfortunately I am in possession of two of these and have very little cash flow available for any new equipment (I hope to scrape up enough for an RNC). I picked up two used 3630's after seeing them advertised as an "industry standard". Having no experience with compressors, being new to home recording and reading about the importance of having compressors for mixing (especially bass guitar my main instrument) I trusted the good things I heard about Alesis. Untill I read the comments here on Home Recording.Com I though my awfull sounding results were due to simply my inexperience. Now I am somewhat wiser but also married with children and broke!
So this is my dilema and rather than using my 3630's for improving tire traction in the snow or target practice I thought I would throw a lifeline out there to see if any one has done upgrades/modifications to similiar pieces of equipment by replacing parts of the electronics and circuits to find any usefull, entertaining or redemptive value. I can do soldering etc. but I am not extremely knowlegable about what to try swapping out and what parts would cost.
Has anyone out ther tried this at home? I got the idea after looking at a web page for a guy that sells diagrams/schematics for upgrades to some pro level comercial pre-amps and sell kits to build your own pre-amps etc. I suppose I could try to sell them to some unwitting newbie but I would feel guilty.