Since a few days my SPD-S only displays memory damaged, factory reset as described in the manual does not work.For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.I bought it used off ebay and it has served my well (once I reloaded the factory install) right up until it was rained on (along with the rest of my cherished gear) at a street dance by band was playing last summer.
Schematics Roland Spd Sx Manual Does NotEver since then my SPD-S has had a noticeable hum or whine to it. Future shizuka in nobita kissI had been getting by at gigs by having the sound guy put a gate on it. That really worked well but certainly wasnt a cure for the long term. I make my living as a computer geek and thanks to that experience, I had enough courage to pull my SPD-S apart with the assistance of my coworker, Greg, who has tons of hands on knowledge about circuit boards. Luckily, the caps have all of the information you need right on the side of them. When we got them, Greg went to work with his trusty soldering gun. Toshiba mk5065gsx firmware updateOne by one, he pulled out the bad caps and replaced them with the new ones. All the disassembly, soldering and reassembly took about an hour and a half if you dont count the part where we waited a few days for the new caps to come in. I dont know what it would have cost if I had put it in the shop but Im pretty sure I saved myself a bundle. Actually, Roland is phasing these out (I think) and are now offereing the SPD-SX which is 799. They shouldnt be considered a throw away and replace type of item. However a month ago at practice the sound from both audio outputs and headphone out reduced by 95, and stayed there since. I sent my SPDS with exactly the same symptoms to Roland to have it repaired. I will now attempt to fix it myself, with quite a lot more confidence, thanks to you. Is that aluminum shield supposed to touch all the contacts on the bottom of the board. Been going crazy looking all over the net to see if there is a fix for it. Took it to a Roland service repair shop and they didnt want to deal with it. I ordered the capacitors and even picked up the same soldering tool in your pics. Although its been a while since you did your repair, I wonder if you might have a kind of circuit board map or if you could tell me where the internal memory sits.
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