First post, by Glendower
Hi all. I used to post a little bit back at Queststudios before my hobbies cycled away from my retro gear. However, the time has come for my interest to swing more fully back to my retroboxes. I bought a PCMIDI card recently and, while waiting for it to arrive from Faroff Lands, I wanted to get things in order for it. I have a CT2760 that I bought new way back when, and I just noticed that the left channel has gone quiet when playing FM and AWE music. Not totally silent yet, but just very quiet. I've done some searching, and all I can see is that people chalk this up to bad caps. That mostly makes sense to me, but since digital audio isn't affected, I say "mostly."
I don't know when this started since I usually use my SW60xg, SCB-55, or MT-32 for music on that machine. Now, what I'm wondering is if there is a diagram available that could tell me which capacitors I ought to replace to fix this specific problem. I'm not great with the soldering iron, but I have swapped out some caps and transistors in receivers before (and in an A4000). I don't fully trust myself to do all of the caps (the risk of failure compounds with every cap!), so it would be nice to know what needs to be swapped. Alternatively, I'd be willing to pay something reasonable to have it done. I know that the card isn't the best and that my other midi devices are better, but it's really just sentimental at this point-- I have other cards I could use for FM.
Also-- while I sort all of this out, would you all recommend that I just pull that card out of the computer? I imagine that I'm risking additional damage...
Thanks!