Roaches in my synth

[nznexus]

i had spiders in my studio ...

[theblue1]

Originally Posted by verve92

I'd love to have this Roach in my house. He could give me all kinds of synth pointers.

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Back in the 80s, I spent an evening drinking beer with Steve at a mutual friend's house while all the younger folks played D&D (electronica geek parties, ya gotta love 'em). Nice guy. I rather like his music, too.

[verve92]

Originally Posted by theblue1

Back in the 80s, I spent an evening drinking beer with Steve at a mutual friend's house while all the younger folks played D&D (electronica geek parties, ya gotta love 'em). Nice guy. I rather like his music, too.

Hahah. Child of the '80's too. Only I din't play D&D. I was the guy who painted the little figurines.
I like his stuff also. Sleep to it after rough days at work.

[knobsmcgee]

Originally Posted by skarekroh

most copper wires have a coating on them that has a sweet flavor. roaches and ants both love to eat the coating. it can happen to most any device with the wires.. tvs radios amps alarm clocks even synths. your house has a roach problem not your synth. call an exterminator. check your other electronics too.

i didnt know that, and youre RIGHT. those filthy bastards used to LOVE my speaker wire.

[vexidz]

Ive had a little bug, dont know which one crawling into my macbook pro. Dont even wanna think about what would happen to get inside of a synth. Sick

[Jesse381]

Sucks, but on the bright side its better that they are big roaches and not tiny ants or something. At least you can see where the roaches are to remove them.

[AJ Reynolds]

They love dirt. This should be a wake up call. CLEANING IS IMPORTANT!!

[pattherocker]

You need to take care of this ASAP. You can get a bug bomb for electronics that should do the trick. I work on cable boxes and modems for a day job and i see tons of units that come through here that wont work any more because of so much roach shit and bodies. Its not a pretty sight and smells awful. Open it up and clean it as well as you can and kill those f*ckers!

[marcgood]

Originally Posted by randomguy

Had some problems with my synth this morning. The OS was acting up. Them I saw a roach sneak into my keyboard. Probably munching on my presets.


WTF? Is this a serious issue? This ever happen to you? Where do we from here?

You've just discovered firsthand where the term "bug" in reference to computers came from. Sucks for you. You need to have it disassembled and cleaned.

Never happened to me but I've seen it with other people. Lastly, move to new place and buy all new stuff if you can. Don't want eggs following you.

[masaski]

Originally Posted by randomguy

Had some problems with my synth this morning. The OS was acting up. Them I saw a roach sneak into my keyboard. Probably munching on my presets.


WTF? Is this a serious issue? This ever happen to you? Where do we from here?

This seriously made me chuckle today...good luck

[ozy]

Originally Posted by audioconsult

and what is with the eggs inside the synth?

don't mention them when selling on ebay

[omsk]

They're essential for getting this authentic early 90s house sound.

[skarekroh]

Originally Posted by AJ Reynolds

They love dirt. This should be a wake up call. CLEANING IS IMPORTANT!!

roaches ants and any other indoor pests arent attracted to dirt or really uncleanliness at all. most of them are a GEOLOGICAL LOCATION problem meaning its the area in which you live. OR theyre after water and 3rd a warm place to lay eggs. ive seen VERY clean houses have more roaches than the houses of slobs. i studied entamology for years so trust me

[robot gigante]

Gross!

A friend had a rat's nest in his Farfisa, I offered to clean and restore it, but on second thought, glad I didn't!! Maybe rats also like the taste of vintage electronics, who knows?

[Numinamusic]

Originally Posted by seen-da-sizer

I was thinking the same thing!

My friend also served as a Roach Motel at his home here in Denver two nights in a row (both of which I attended) a few years ago. During his first night I was laying down on the floor in front of his rig completely zoned with my eyes closed and at about an hour in to the set I felt this warm air on my face and I opened my eyes to see Steve had the butt end of his didgeridoo about 3 inches from my face. I looked over at my friend (Andy Kredt, RIP) next to me and he had this big smile on his face, t'was a cool two nights of Roach music. *And* I am honored to mention that this Roach has just added my latest album to his online store (had to plug it). If you're an ambient music lover, you should go get yourself some Roach titles! (and a few others too wink-wink).

Numina releases from steveroach.com

[sctt_stone]

Hmmm, one morning I turned on my coffe maker and started to smell a strange sweet meat like burning smell. Then I noticed the smoke coming out of the back of my coffee maker. Turns out baby roaches were in it and they shorted something out. Little basterds came running out when I placed it on the counter, babies, dozens of them.

[studiomood]

Why don't you call yourself deadroach5 and make it big???

[Ghosted]

At least you don't have a botfly infestation.



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