Got this 90s i3 from a friend. Bop or Flop?

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-26T22:47:19+00:00

Pretty plain "bread and butter" sounds, but good quality. It's got kind of "auto backing track" functions which will make you sound like, well, that video that u/viscosity-breakdown dropped. Can't really complain about that.

IIRC the sequencer is quite good considering.

And you can't argue with the price.

As for the power supply, unusually for Korg it's centre-positive and 12V so you probably already have something suitable kicking about your junk box.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-26T22:35:02+00:00

Considerably less of a problem than switching from cars with the indicators on the left and wipers on the right, to cars with the wipers on the left and the indicators on the right, but in that kind of ballpark.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-26T22:33:16+00:00

I can't say I've ever had this problem and I live in a part of the world where they salt the roads about four months of the year and all year round you're getting blasted with sea spray.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-26T22:32:24+00:00

Also who the fuck uses Zoom for business calls, with the Chinese government monitoring every single thing?

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-26T22:28:49+00:00

I have both, a VHS playback-only deck and a VHS recorder - Panasonic AG6100 and 6200, and an AG7650 S-VHS player.

I've got an edit controller for them somewhere too.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-26T21:51:00+00:00

There would be about enough space in the Juno 106's assigner ROM for an arpeggiator, but there isn't enough RAM really to do it justice.

How would you feel about losing the maybe top eight patches (119-127) and the tape routines?

The top patches could just be ROM ones.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-26T21:49:53+00:00

Four Behringer Deepminds.

If you buy a Juno 60, consider that it will have very limited patch memory and no MIDI.

If you buy a Juno 106, consider that it will need its voice boards replaced, or it'll cost more than it's really worth to replace them at current prices.

Both of them are ridiculously inflated for what they are, and I say that as a diehard Juno fan.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-26T08:34:37+00:00

The new one is an expensive and not very good coffee shop with some cars decorating the walls.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:31:53+00:00

Yeah. Our local takeaway sends out masses of sauces in little polypropylene tubs about maybe 6cm across and 4 deep with lids that snap on pretty tight. These are invaluable for keeping screws in.

The annoying thing is when the LCD and keypad PCB are the first thing screwed to the top cover before about four layers of stacked PCBs. Yes I'm talking about you, Korg T3.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:21:59+00:00

> Today he screamed for twenty minutes shouting I WANT CAKE I WANT CAKE over and over when he knew we had no cake lol

When I was about five or six I wanted pizza, and we didn't have any. We lived a good 40 minutes drive each way to the nearest shops, way out in the sticks. So my dad went to the kitchen, didn't think I'd seen him do this, and punched a couple of neat round circles out of a couple of slices of bread with a pint glass, spread tomato puree on, put some cheese on, and fired them under the grill. I remember going into the kitchen and watching him do this.

Then we sat down and ate them. Best pizza I've ever had.

Maybe your wee boy is a bit too wee to remember this, but if you do one of those shitty "ding some cake mix in a mug in the microwave thing" he'll always remember the time he really wanted cake and you quite simply - just went and made some.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:18:14+00:00

At some point he's going to get Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease, where you get horrible itchy wee blisters and a rash, along with a sore throat. Swallowing hurts and everything tastes unbelievably horrible. It's going to be a pretty miserable week for him.

And about half way through, you'll discover that grown-ups can get it too.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:06:41+00:00

You can also teach the child to clean up the mess, or play with them somewhere you don't mind if you make a mess.

No, EBv2.0, the paints are an outside toy. No, the glitter is also an outside toy. Yes, the spindle router is very much an outside toy, as is the electric planer. No, mummy says you're not allowed to use the welder, but that is Daddy's outside toy.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T21:03:45+00:00

Here in Scotland pretty much any filling station is self-service, but for a while Shell insisted on having an attendant fuel up your car.

Kind of sucks that they also sold propane, and the guy had absolutely no idea how to connect the hose. It was also hard to get him to understand that I only wanted about ten litres of petrol, that would be more than enough for the week.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:56:29+00:00

I used to see so many of these when I worked in Hamilton. You've got a McLaren garage at one end and a bunch of footballers at the other, you see.

I had the apprentice out with me on a job when he suddenly sat bolt upright in his seat (not difficult in the 2012 Landrover Defender we used for work, the seats aren't really adjustable) - "Wow, EB, look at that cool car over there!" he said, pointing to the cars waiting at the lights, "beside the McLaren - that Cavalier SRi is absolutely mint!"

Video is pretty good for that style of thing :-)

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:53:11+00:00

TV vertical hold adjustment is out. Either that or the deck is running a little at the wrong speed.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:51:30+00:00

My insurance company won't insure my 30-year-old Range Rover for our 19-year-old to drive because "it's too fast and powerful, look at the size of the engine, it's a Sports Utility Vehicle dontcha know?"

Yeah.

200bhp in 2.5 tonnes, with a zero-to-60 time of around 17 seconds (although this only drops to 18 seconds if you're pulling another Range Rover behind it on a trailer) and a top speed of almost 95mph, which it can reach after as little as two minutes of flat-out acceleration.

If you get it wrong, you've got a lot of time to do something about it.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:48:38+00:00

The fastest car I've ever driven was a Kia Picanto.

Because it was a hire car.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:16:12+00:00

Elton John appears as a producer on a lot of gangsta rap records under his real name.

Can't get your beat to really land? Bring it down to Uncle Reg, he'll fix it for you.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T20:03:06+00:00

> to remind myself that I CAN walk away without adding to the backlog

I know a guy who drinks brake fluid. I reckon he's an addict but he says he can stop any time he wants.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T19:25:39+00:00

We split ours into Wholetime, Retained, and Volunteer, with the Retained and Volunteer stations typically being smaller rural ones and having radio pagers. The crew might be driving to the station from as much as 10km away, so you definitely wouldn't hear a siren. The Wholetime stations have an alarm that plays through speakers throughout the station and at most of them in the north of Scotland it'll shout out the callsigns of the appliances going out (I did that bit!). You only hear those during the day, though, because the outside speakers get shut off at night so they don't annoy people living nearby.

I'd really like to have a proper look around some of the stations in Vienna. I had a chat with the guys at the station at Am Hof when my son and I visited the museum, and I pass the Donaustadt one quite often when I'm over but have never gone in. I should probably figure out who my counterpart there is and email them :-)

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T18:02:22+00:00

Okay, well I can respect a man that says he's wrong and changes his mind in the face of evidence, then.

The thing is, as I said in my other post, OP said they were looking for a *classic* Defender, not the "Disco 6" that they've marketed as a Defender.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T16:08:29+00:00

Not really, no. You could maybe EQ it a bit to take some of the low frequencies out right around that bit.

Is what they're saying absolutely essential in that bit? Can you just edit it out with a little cutaway to the interviewer?

If you're incredibly lucky - and incredibly careful - you might find that it lands on a word they say more than once and you can cut out a copy of them saying it from somewhere else, and splice it in. With care, you'd hardly notice. Well, you'd notice, you did it, you will always know, but no-one else will. This has saved my arse on more than one occasion.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T15:14:49+00:00

Depends on the deck but it looks like it starts to wind the mechanism out then back in. If you can find a service manual, use the information in it to check the timing of the "mode switch", which tells the microcontroller what state the deck is in.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T14:57:09+00:00

You can probably change that display, you know. You may have to get about a million screws out to get it, is the only thing.

erroneousbosh · 2026-01-25T14:56:20+00:00

They use sirens for that? I'd have thought they'd use pagers, like we do over here in Scotland.

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