Garage Audio Repair: Estey M101 60s Electric Organ Part III

Only losers use schematics. Oh...and people who want the job done effectively.
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Repairing an Estey Model M101 Organ for the third goddamn time!

[@ringsystemmusic]

“lower deck keys were all out of whack” as a part-time noise musician those bad boys are working perfectly

[@dogsisterrrrr]

positively groovy

[@TheProducers]

That organ is temperamental, and sounds like nothing else. You have anger issues, and out there imagination. You two are a match in heaven :-D

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Ha, thanks for your comment Claude!

[@muttomatic]

Love the outro jam. My stages of troubleshooting grief are very much the same. As far as dirty organ, my keyboardist has a Korg SV-1 that she runs through a Boss Fuzz pedal to dirty it up. Whenever we record her I spend a lot of time trying to make it sound like a cheap, shitty 60s transistor organ. You're saving so much time starting with something that's already messed up!

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Ha that's a good point man!

[@billymcguiremusic]

6:40 I had a feeling they were NPN transistors lol And I love these repair videos. I wish I didn't let my electronics knowledge go to waste. I'm so foggy with troubleshooting gear.

[@Mario_DiSanto]

How could you tell!

[@rot_studios]

One of the stranger looking organs for sure!

[@Jacob.sahagun]

Thank you, I have a Tascam 488 portastudio that has a bunch of minor issues. Going to utilize the chopstick and contact cleaner method first and see what happens

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Contact cleaner on all the pots and switches often fixes a lot.

[@kellypeterson2625]

Congratulations on your persistence and victory. The organ does have a cool vibe

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Yes, thank you!

[@gelsol]

I really liked the demo.

[@ЇжачокЇжак]

Bro, may be this video saved an rare old electric organ (I almost gave up and sell it, because it's no schematic on the internet)

[@ArlenSheehan]

Mario!! I absolutely love the song at the end, you should definitely release it. Keep up the videos man you’re a huge inspiration legend

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Thanks! Will do!

[@cpsedmonds]

Informative and entertaining as ever my dude 🤣💚

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Thanks for watching!

[@cpsedmonds]

You testing the keys at 10:20 almost sounded like a cover of Mrs O'Leary's Cow

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Hopefully I don't burn any places down as a result!

[@BadChizzle]

Oh man, I feel for ya on this one. These things can really be… (Well there’s no real word for it), but I get it. Sorry, but glad you got it going once again. 😵‍💫🪚🪠🤷‍♂️

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Thanks Chuk!

[@ringsystemmusic]

WOOO hell yeah. Terrible old keyboards gang! Just put out a video about my dad’s old Casio.

[@sovietpotatoes3578]

Not really related to the video but the about your album. The back album artwork, I can't believe you unspooled that much tape for a picture, although it was a cool picture. What made you think to do that. How was it afterwards, what did you do with the tape? I enjoy your videos, so much!

[@Mario_DiSanto]

I used a bum batch of tape so nothing "of value" was lost. I had that idea for a picture for a long time when I first had the idea of making an album. So I had the plan to do so for years until I finally did it.

[@thesheaves27]

13:34 lol

[@jesseaguilar5967]

The outro demo was sick! Two questions. Where did you learn about electronic repair? And what was your recording set up for the outro?

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Years of toying around with half working audio equipment. Apparently you learn really quickly when you got low budget vintage junkaroonie! I have an engineering background but that helps only minimally. The 'chopstick' method could teach you more than years of schooling. Everything was recorded with my little portable cassette recorder on the chair.

[@jesseaguilar5967]

@@Mario_DiSanto That’s interesting. I have a chopstick and a stereo that I want to repair so I’ll give a try. Last question. Was the organ connected to a looper pedal?

[@Mario_DiSanto]

@@jesseaguilar5967 yes

[@R3TR0R4V3]

Might as well keep it.. Seems like you got it sorted out, plus it's probably not worth shit anyway.

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Don't offend my organ like that! Didn't you see the video??? It's worth roughly $1,544,542,493,982,347!

[@TheOtherJCBroadcast]

Your a more resolute person than I, I would have just started practicing scales that don’t use G.

[@Mario_DiSanto]

Haha I tried working around it for a bit but I use the G note a lot!

[@TheOtherJCBroadcast]

@@Mario_DiSanto that’s what she said! Love your stuff man. If you ever play in San Diego or the west coast in general lit us know.

[@AldeanLeger]

Simmadownow

[@rainbowmade1880]

Pretty impressive! I finally got my nerve up and managed to pull out and reseat all 16 of my channel cards on my atr60-16. It was nerve wracking but I didn’t break one. Channel one sounded like it was under water, as of yesterday it’s clean! Hope nothing has changed over night🥹. I had a very temperamental Vox Continental. It was the Jennings English version. All the germanium transistors would go out of tune if it got cold. Would have to constantly adjust the bias screws!!! Sold it and got another one that is behaving properly !!