Well I've been having a lot of fun playing with my new SK60 - this thing is amazing! The sampling quality is much better and clearer than the earlier SK1/5/8 - you can actually sample hihats on the sample pads and actually recognise them as hihats
I've just done a couple of simple but essential mods to it:
1. Line out jack installed
- just a simple job, get a standard guitar type socket and wire it in parallel with the speaker, and just put a 5k resistor in the socket signal wire connection. I used a jack that had a set of switches built into it such that when I plug in a lead to the socket, it disconnects the internal speaker
2. Line in jack installed
- a bit trickier, but you can tap into the board just after resistor labelled R119 (a 22k resistor) on the circuit board with your jack line wire. The ground wire of the jack can be connected to the same circuit point as the inbuilt brown mic wire. You can then have a manual switch to switch off the mic while recording line in, or use a jack with a switch so it automatically disconnects the mic.
This seems to work well, except that it seems to have some sort of small voltage offset triggering the sample start automatically, even if there is no signal going in, and when you play it back, you hear a small pop or click at the very start of the sample. Perhaps putting the signal wire just before R119 instead of after may stop this - I'll let you know when I try it sometime. Other than that, it works - I've been recording loops from my computer line out into it and it sounds great!
Next - a 16x memory expansion!
Cheers, Graham