I realize it's been a long silence around here, but that's only because I have nothing suitable for semi-public consumption to report. I wish I had a mind-bendingly earth-shattering post with which to break the silence, but alas, it's just more vintage technofetishism (so stop reading now if that sort of thing sends you to sleep.)
I have an AMS RMX16 and DMX-1580S which I love dearly and use on most projects. However, being over 25 years old, they are starting to show their age (worn keypads, broken switch caps and switches, etc...) so it was time to spruce them up with
some spare parts from these guys.
So far, the tally is 1 new keypad and two new (repro'd) nudge caps on the DMX. Left to go: a switch replacement on the RMX and a repair of its rare and fabulous remote (not shown), which came with an actual barcode reader and barcode program cards to allow extra reverb algorithms to be downloaded into the RMX! (This is 1984
state of the art we're talking about here, kids..)
Incidentally, replacing the parts on the DMX took about 5 minutes, but getting the screws back into the chassis (because of the horribly awkward internal layout of the unit) was a lengthy nightmare. Be warned in the unlikely event that you ever decide to undertake working on one of these yourself!
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