Korg Volca Beats C78 Snare Mod

[@Varue]

That 105 really fattens it up! I love the use of those leads to exchange components at will. Very clever!

[@epicon6]

Thanks!!!! Awesome to hear multiple options

[@moosgummi4480]

Wow, great video! This is actually the first time I heard a difference between Bah, the Volca Snare sucks so bad! and Hey, listen how many times better my mod is!

[@rhampton1914]

This is incredible. You really are educated on these circuit Adventures. I did indeed subscribe to your channel look forward to seeing more of this type of footage I'm the guy on Facebook that you met also thank you for subscribing as well

[@chadjohnson-authormusician8072]

Thanks for making this video. I'm curious, though, as to why you were jumping between multiples of 10 with each capacitor. In other words, there's a HUGE difference between 103 (.01uf) and 106 (10uf). I mean, there's a big difference between 105 (.1uf) and 106 (10uf). I imagine I would like it somewhere halfway between those two.

[@andrew.herron]

They were just what I had handy, plus the large difference in values showed off how you can change the sound. Eventually I want to get a variable capacitor in there and be able to control the noise mix that way. Until then, I have a rotary switch with different pre-selected values.

[@chadjohnson-authormusician8072]

Ok cool, I can dig it.

[@MarcoInfussi]

could you please link the board schematics you show in the video? thank you!

[@chilp9759]

This is great! Phat little mod. I didn't know the capacitors could be switched out after doing the "snare mod." Can you tell me what those two wires sticking out are called? And are most 104 & 105 labeled capacitors appropriate for this mod? I don't know what their capacitance is, and I am unfamiliar with such codes. Thanks in advance!

[@andrew.herron]

I'm not sure what they're called actually, I have a lot for tinkering with eletcronics and microcontrollers. The 104 and 105 have to do 10 and then how many zeros for capacitance. 104 is 10 and 4 0s, so it'd be 100,000pF, or 0.1uF.

[@iwriteonshit]

I'm a little late, but they're called Dupont cables.

[@Music-yt7xo]

Anyway to make this a knob?

[@kevinitwaru5919]

super helpful, thanks dude!

[@scamperooniespanker8736]

love the video but ngl would love if you didn't set the tempo so high -- was wanting to hear the full hit

[@altenmuenster]

did the 105 have an effect on the decay function? ive read somewhere that larger resistors may have this effect, but cannot recall whether it was in combination with the 105.. //agree tho, 105er is much nicer!

[@andrew.herron]

It shouldn't since this affects the amount of noise being mixed in, but I haven't noticed anything.

[@altenmuenster]

cheers mate, did it last week already and opted for the 105. works fine, thanks for the upload!

[@derekflow]

Sounds like "Good Vibrations" at 5:23 haha

[@DanielRiera]

Where did you get the 105 capacitors?

[@andrew.herron]

I had them lying around. I work on electronics as a hobby so I have a few Radio Shacks worth of stuff in my lab.

[@esbenthommesen585]

@@andrew.herron What are those leads called?

[@andrew.herron]

@@esbenthommesen585 Do a search for jumper wires, you should be able to find them pretty cheap.

[@apocalypseplease19]

@@andrew.herron are they male or female?

[@andrew.herron]

@@apocalypseplease19 Female. I cut off the other ends, tinned them with solder, and then soldered them to the points on the board.

[@_EightySix]

Sweet audio cable

[@andrew.herron]

This cable actually has a breakout into L/R as well as a low pass filter and sub-out.

[@jonnie2bad]

even with that mod that snare is useless

[@andrew.herron]

I disagree, but to each their own. I love my Beats and the added range the mod allows for.