Modding The Volca Beats ?

DrHoo · Post by **DrHoo** » Sat Dec 28, 2013 5:21 pm

SMD, sorry. No, i can't help there. All the info about the koma elektroniks mods are on that page you linked, they were the first to publish the mods i think.
To be honest i don't use the volca, it doesn't interest me.
I modded it because i was unsatisfied with it as standard & it did sound better ,especially being able to separate out the hats & sharpen them up but there's not much to gain from doing any more to it. I doubt i will ever use it.

geux · Post by **geux** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 3:57 pm

Yeah, okay, but I just wanna know if you have informations about the "SMT Route", that you was speaking in your last post... not SMD component !

DrHoo · Post by **DrHoo** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:21 pm

No, i was referring to going down the smd route. Something i don't do myself.
Good luck with it.

geux · Post by **geux** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 7:50 pm

Ok, no problem.
I'll post if I find the solution

Thank you anyway for your post.

DrHoo · Post by **DrHoo** » Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:38 pm

Like i said, the link you posted has the answer. Individual bass drum out. Personally i thought it looked to fiddly but if you are good with a soldering iron with a fine tip..

peteone · Post by **peteone** » Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:22 am

Hey there we were just doing volca beats mod and we can not get the bass drum and snare drum out even though we used r189 for bass and r212 for snare looking at koma elektronik website - everything else is working fine .....but we can do these 2 is there any trick to this?>????? can you help

Sclr · Post by **Sclr** » Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:36 pm

Blackout has a great snare mod that 'fixes' the snare noise. Also hat triangle mod:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electron ... e-fix.html

darenager · Post by **darenager** » Fri Feb 21, 2014 4:50 pm

Best place to get the output for the bass drum is from the pot leg, I think it is the 3rd leg on the decay pot, you can test by connecting a cable to a speaker, make sure that you ground the Volca to the speaker, then touch the other end of the cable on the pot leg and you should hear it (obviously make sure the Volca is playing the bass drum!)

drmarble · Post by **drmarble** » Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:07 pm

peteone wrote:Hey there we were just doing volca beats mod and we can not get the bass drum and snare drum out even though we used r189 for bass and r212 for snare looking at koma elektronik website - everything else is working fine .....but we can do these 2 is there any trick to this?>????? can you help

Yes, there is a trick, to get just kick or just snare. And all you need are the labeled points – you don't have to solder to SMD parts to get them.

The official Korg-labeled outputs (as printed on the PCB) include:

TOM
TOM + SNARE
TOM + SNARE + KICK

So, if you need to isolate snare or kick...

SNARE = (TOM + SNARE) - (TOM)

and

KICK = (TOM + SNARE + KICK) - (TOM + SNARE)

Subtraction in this case means to sum the two channels in a mixer, but flip the polarity (aka "phase reverse" or "ø") on the second channel. Granted, it's not as convenient for playing live shows as just having an isolated KICK output would be, but it's easy enough to do in the studio.

cheers,
dr. marble

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