I want to know if its easy to mod an old prodigy (the one’s that don’t have CV control) to get all the connections of a newer one (the filter in, and all the CV). I want to know if its just solder one cable from the board to a jack or I will need a professional to do the work (don’t ask me to do more than solder a cable because i’m not into electronics ). Thanks in advance and sorry for my English.
No one?. I’m asking this because I have the oportunity of buying an older Prodigy but i want to use it with my Moogerfoogers. I know that it will be better to buy one of the later models but here in Spain (I think in all Europe) is difficult to find that kind of gear.
The problem in providing an answer is that you’ve asked if something is easy to do and “easy” is a huge variable.
Easy for whom?
An experienced tech?
Yourself?
Fwiw, I have photos here of a Prodigy so modded.
It was done at a service center in Los Angeles that’s been around for many years.
They have a good Better Business Bureau rating and are nice people.
What did they do?
They epoxied huge diameter wires (thick enough to handle speaker signals) across the board, labeled the jacks with pens, soldered it poorly, cut traces poorly, charged the customer $400 and finally… it didn’t work.
That’s why it was brought to me.
Yet the owner of this Prodigy went to a well known service center and had to pay still more later for the actual work to be done correctly afterwards.
Whether the mod is “easy” at that point almost isn’t important.
The client went to someone billed as a pro and later had to pay again for another pro to fix it.
So how can anyone really tell upfront what price or quality something will be unless they themselves have personal experience with the tech that does the work, even if it’s themselves?
Lol, i know, i regret an answer like that. I wanted to know:
a) if it was possible (without going to the NASA)
b) If it was straight like soldering a cable from a jack to the board
c) If there are kits for doing it (which now i know they are)
One of the problems of living in Spain is that we dont have many experts in vintage gear and sending it to USA is a little bit expensive (and also hard to know who to trust). I also tried to buy a Prodigy from ebay USA but a lot of sellers refuse to ship it overseas