The drum machine is worth saving, you could actually cut the rhythm section controls out of the front panel and use that as a base to build a wooden box for the drum machine.
Hi Flemming, auch von mir ein frohes neues Jahr. Bin mal gespannt wie die Orgel ingesamt klingt, also Sound, Bass, Rhytmus etc. Vielleicht ist ja alles zusammen doch ein Supersound. Ich lasse mich überraschen. Die Drums kommen mir irgendwie bekannt vor. George MacRae ,Rock You Baby‘? 🤷♀️ Was für ein Video 🍀 Gruß aus Deutschland, Andy.
Thanks, and a Happy New Year to you too. Judging from how the organ is made, it is nothing special - just the standard late 1970's home organ sound, with the exception that it only has one manual and no pedals, so it can only play with one set of sounds at a time, or automatic accompaniment and a set of sounds for the melody.
So the owners were actually experts! Well you can’t save them all. The drums are surprisingly hum free though. My very first synthesizer is the JEN SX1000. A great little machine. I still own and use it.
It was sort of a specialty for Jen organs. It was mostly an American thing; Lowrey, Wurlitzer, and some others used that particular "marble" type of plastic.
There is a five octave keyboard that I will probably use for something synth-related. It's not very often you see such a long keyboard on an old home organ.
I decided it was not worth it. It was quite damaged by spending many years in a damp loft and had a somewhat rotten smell, so I thought that no matter what I did to save it, it would still be a miseable old piece of damp smelling plywood.
I think the M108 was so integrated that there was magazine articles about building your own organ around it. Not much to add on to make a basic organ. Nice try to save it. One good thing is that even broken machines like this provice parts for DIY if you are so inclined. Decent switches, keybed, speaker... Did you harvest anything? The drum machine sounds nice in it's own way.
Yes, I took the drum machine out as a unit, so it will possibly be used as it is. But I show the take-apart-process in my next video. So stay tuned, as they would say many years ago.
It is possible - as another commenter pointed out, but the thing is that they have not been produced for many years, so everything you can get is 'New Old Stock' or ICs that has been pulled from scrapped instruments. You don't really know what you get, and since the Jen organ is just a simple, and frankly not very desirable, instrument, I decided not to go further in my repair attempts.
I almost never comment on videos or engage in any way and I'm sure you are an amazing person but this is such a bad video. Everything shown and given as advice is plain wrong, this is not the way to clean pcbs, yes it will get worse by appyling tap water and then letting things corrode, no you do not turn trimpots to "clean" them with contact cleaner.. how are you supposed to put them back in the correct position ? Service manual ? Full calibratiion ? You skip obvious problems, like those pink matshuhita capacitors, most probably not a signle IC is bad on the organ and the JEN is totally fixable.
Happy new year Flemming!
The drum machine is worth saving, you could actually cut the rhythm section controls
out of the front panel and use that as a base to build a wooden box for the drum machine.
I have thought about it. If I build a case for the drum machine I might as well save as much from the original configuration as possible.
@@organfairyI second this idea.
The drums sound good & worth saving...
Hi Flemming, auch von mir ein frohes neues Jahr. Bin mal gespannt wie die Orgel ingesamt klingt, also Sound, Bass, Rhytmus etc. Vielleicht ist ja alles zusammen doch ein Supersound. Ich lasse mich überraschen. Die Drums kommen mir irgendwie bekannt vor. George MacRae ,Rock You Baby‘? 🤷♀️
Was für ein Video 🍀
Gruß aus Deutschland, Andy.
Thanks, and a Happy New Year to you too. Judging from how the organ is made, it is nothing special - just the standard late 1970's home organ sound, with the exception that it only has one manual and no pedals, so it can only play with one set of sounds at a time, or automatic accompaniment and a set of sounds for the melody.
So the owners were actually experts! Well you can’t save them all. The drums are surprisingly hum free though. My very first synthesizer is the JEN SX1000. A great little machine. I still own and use it.
These pearl shaded style switches looks amazing! Not in favor of the big synth makers nowadays.
It was sort of a specialty for Jen organs. It was mostly an American thing; Lowrey, Wurlitzer, and some others used that particular "marble" type of plastic.
@@organfairy I like those marbled switches, too. Also Viscount used them on some of their bigger, later analog organs.
As the qualified "organ elf" you can put your own organ synthesizer inside this :)
There is a five octave keyboard that I will probably use for something synth-related. It's not very often you see such a long keyboard on an old home organ.
Excellent idea. Except the smell that is. 😁
Whats that exact tone generator ic again? I might have one kicking around from an old Bontempi i tore down years ago
I see a few m108b1 ICs on the web for ~ 25.95 €. Maybe not worth fixing?
I decided it was not worth it. It was quite damaged by spending many years in a damp loft and had a somewhat rotten smell, so I thought that no matter what I did to save it, it would still be a miseable old piece of damp smelling plywood.
@@organfairy That's too bad, i rather want the whole organ working.
I think the M108 was so integrated that there was magazine articles about building your own organ around it. Not much to add on to make a basic organ. Nice try to save it. One good thing is that even broken machines like this provice parts for DIY if you are so inclined. Decent switches, keybed, speaker... Did you harvest anything? The drum machine sounds nice in it's own way.
Yes, I took the drum machine out as a unit, so it will possibly be used as it is. But I show the take-apart-process in my next video. So stay tuned, as they would say many years ago.
Maybe you can try to fix this organ so it can play with charm again.
7:42 I'm sure you can ge thte keys working.
So there is no possibility to find a replacement IC ???
It is possible - as another commenter pointed out, but the thing is that they have not been produced for many years, so everything you can get is 'New Old Stock' or ICs that has been pulled from scrapped instruments. You don't really know what you get, and since the Jen organ is just a simple, and frankly not very desirable, instrument, I decided not to go further in my repair attempts.
The music audio quality is very good. Is this a multitrack recording?
Yes, the Yamaha MC-200 I used cannot do all those layers at the same time.
I almost never comment on videos or engage in any way and I'm sure you are an amazing person but this is such a bad video. Everything shown and given as advice is plain wrong, this is not the way to clean pcbs, yes it will get worse by appyling tap water and then letting things corrode, no you do not turn trimpots to "clean" them with contact cleaner.. how are you supposed to put them back in the correct position ? Service manual ? Full calibratiion ? You skip obvious problems, like those pink matshuhita capacitors, most probably not a signle IC is bad on the organ and the JEN is totally fixable.