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Technics GA3 organ sounds missing

I've recently moved (2 lumpy removal men) a Technics GA3 from the ground floor to the first floor and have lost the organ sounds during the move. I've retraced the route the guys took, had a look on the floor, and can't find them anywhere. Essen…

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Technics GA3 organ sounds missing

Silverfox

Silverfox
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I've recently moved (2 lumpy removal men) a Technics GA3 from the ground floor to the first floor and have lost the organ sounds during the move.

I've retraced the route the guys took, had a look on the floor, and can't find them anywhere.

Essentially I've lost all of the organs from the Hammonds through to Church. Everything else works as it should, piano sounds, drums and whatnot.

My thoughts are a circuit board or edge connector has been disturbed. I've purchased some contact cleaner and propose to lift the circuit boards out and clean the edge connectors. I'm not totally numb to what I'm going to find but would value any pointers especially board identification before I take the back off.

I have an old GA1 in store with a failed LED. The 'organ sounds card' worked well on that. In the event I find something terrible on the GA3 card does anyone know are any of the cards between the GA1 and GA3 interchangeable.

Any assistance would be gratefully received.

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Posted on July 23, 2018 at 12:26 PM
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jd5live

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Re: Technics GA3 organ sounds missing

Hi, your GA1 does not have separate voice cards the instrument uses a digital voice processor system. the area I would first check is to do a Factory reset
To do factory reset :- Hold the first 3 left buttons of the Rhythm Group then Power Up. the screen will show Factory reset/settings.
This may well have cleared the fault If not Does the Organ menus come up on the display? if not please come back to us.
Regards John.

Posted on July 23, 2018 at 5:34 PM

Silverfox

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Re: Technics GA3 organ sounds missing

jD5live

I'm indebted to you Sir. I did as you suggested, the organ re-initialised and once again all is good in my world. The voices have all returned whether selected from the one stop organ or as I was using registrations from a floppy disc.

Kind regards

Silverfox.

Posted on July 25, 2018 at 8:59 AM

jd5live

jd5live
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Re: Technics GA3 organ sounds missing

Glad to be of use, The full reset is really only to be used in situation like you found yourself in and often resolves problems that a "Performance" reset from the initial menu does not do. It in effect gives you a clean slate to start over, and does away for the need to go hunting for the lost voices on the stairs !!! LOL.
Best regards John.

Posted on July 25, 2018 at 1:38 PM