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Roland JX-3P
The refurbishment project
This series of videos shows how I approached the refurbishment of a Roland JX-3P Synthesiser that have been loaned to the channel.
Background:
I have been talking to a DRUM and BASS artist / producer / record label owner for several years following a video that I made relating to how to setup your Roland MX-1 (https://youtu.be/g0cHfT74K3w). The artist / producer / record label owner is known professionally as @TheDeathBeats or Gary Robinson publishing music through the DEATHRAY music label.
Late last year we got onto the subject of DRUM and BASS pioneers and the instruments that these pioneers acquired to produce their music. Instruments like the ROLAND TR-909, ROLAND W-30 and ROLAND JX-3P. These instruments were the backbone of acts that inspired Gary to create and publish.
The conversation turned to the fact that Gary had a number of these instruments that needs some Tender Loving Care (TLC) and were in storage with his parents in the UK while Gary is currently living and working in Mexico.
One of these instruments was the JX-3P which I agreed to look at and is featured in this series of videos. The main issue was that the memory was not holding tones or sequences following a power cycle.
This video series follows the steps undertaken to diagnose and then fix the issues with Gary’s presious Roland JX-3P.
The key issues identified were:
JX-3P memory.
The pots particularily the volume pot were scratchy.
a series of keys on the keybed were dead.
