UFX modifications, Part II

I'm not gonna lie, I was a little disappointed with how my UFX modification project turned out. I should clarify: for the obsessively minded, disappointment in a few little things tends to translate to disappointment in the whole. It's a pretty killer mod, overall, and was a ton of work. But still, there were two …

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Zoom F8 teardown

Since I posted photos of the internals of a MixPre 6 before, thought it might be fair to display the guts of SD's main rival in this market, the Zoom F8... The differences in layout between F-series and MixPre are telling, to say the least. The F-series is a serious puzzle box, I wasn't sure …

Teardown of Sound Devices MixPre 6 (gen 1)

It's good to know your gear, and I've been a real big fan of Sound Devices' MixPres because they are generally free of the analog corner-cutting you find in most prosumer stuff. This should be celebrated, because that's the way the market should be. Companies generally gut analog stages then add all kinds of bells …

RME UFX modifications

There's a lot of mystique, anxiety, snake oil, and misdirection with audio modifications. I've purchased a few modified units over the years, and had some gear modified (most of which I've now sold) by the very reputable companies that do this work, and I have to say, I'm always a bit irked by the rather …

Presonus HP4 modifications

This was my first major modification project, something I've been meaning to post about for the last couple of years––it's morphed over time, I've added and removed components as I learned from other projects. The Presonus HP4 is an excellent and powerful headphone amp, and can be found for cheap on Ebay, Reverb, etc. I …

Rokit 5 G3 Limiter and Stand-by/Mute removal

Finally I got around to figuring this out. Had to poke around a little bit. Ran across this schematic in the land of diy forums. It's for the G2 Rokit 6 amps, which had the notorious black goo of death problem, so totally different design (well, probably not that different... these budget companies never really …

KRK Rokit 5 G3 Modifications

This was not my first major modification project (my first was an old Presonus MP4 headphone amp, AMAZING, which I might write about another time), but it was significant insofar as these are my studio monitors, and I basically wasn't using them. They're just not clear enough. Muddy and incoherent, kinda bland, can't hear anything …