From Giles Ward Sent Mon, Aug 20th 2018, 11:28
From Giles Ward Sent Mon, Aug 20th 2018, 11:28
> Bearing in mind that the pots aren't secured to the front panel > the whole thing is probably quite flimsy. > > 3. I haven't worked out how those pots are secured. It looks like > heatshrink tube over a cylindrical bit of wood/plastic with two bits of > wire soldered to the pot body and into the board. Probably quite stable > but must have taken ages to do. When I got my Prodigy I was surprised to find the pots aren't fixed to the panel. It looks like a sturdy instrument but the pots do have some wobble. I bet these wooden blocks flat against the PCB make it less wobbly than the original. On the Behringer Model D they're just poking through the panel too. They seem quite well fixed down to the PCB but there is just enough thread to get some Alpha sized washers and nuts on them and that makes them totally solid. The only gotcha is overtightening the ones near the rotary switches on the left can compress the switches and make them pretty hard to turn. I was thinking maybe I could sell the Prodigy to free up some space but it is a tiny bit better soundwise. > 4. The pots are for the most part 16mm Alpha or similar. I've never > found Alpha's log pots that satisfactory for the EGs attack, decay and > release pots because the taper law isn't accurate enough at the fast end. The Behringer D feels a bit like that. Bigger knobs seem to help. One thing about this replica I don't like is the sharp edges and corners on the wood. Again, the Behringer D has that too.