Linn Linndrum

Linn LinndrumLinn Linndrum LM 2 For Sale Meticulously Refurbished This unit's electronics have been meticulously overhauled and important future proofing measures were taken in an effort to significantly extend its life. This is time consuming and expensive skilled work that took more than 25 hours to complete, but this work's resulted in a Linndrum that works perfectly and should hopefully outlast all others. In addition to any necessary repairs, here's a summary

Linn Linndrum LM-2 For Sale - Meticulously Refurbished

This unit's electronics have been meticulously overhauled and important future-proofing measures were taken in an effort to significantly extend its life. This is time consuming and expensive skilled work that took more than 25 hours to complete, but this work's resulted in a Linndrum that works perfectly and should hopefully outlast all others.

In addition to any necessary repairs, here's a summary of the work done to this unit (I probably left something out):

Lots of capacitors replaced as a preventative measure
Power supply / battery board fully rebuilt
Installed new 10k trimpot for power PCB
Batteries replaced 
Memory tested
All sliders and rotary pots cleaned
All switch pads removed, disassembled, cleaned and adjusted
Unit cleaned inside and out
34 molex terminals replaced
Replaced 10p molex x3
Cleaned fuse holder and fuse
Burn in test and multiple additional systematic tests passed

The Linn Drum LM2 drum machine is probably the most famous of the digital drum machines from the 1980s.  Its tight, punchy sounds, ease of use and solid quantization made it most 80s musicians 1st choice.  Its shuffle feature had a very human quality to it which was unmatched at the time and still highly regarded today!  Features a mixer - volume and panning controls for each drum sound, tuning for some and decay adjustment for the hihats (very useful!).  This thing really sounds great.  If youre into retro drum machines and dont have one of these, you should really consider it.  If you want to reproduce the sounds of the 80s, this is the machine for you!  We love this machine and wouldnt part with it if we didnt have another one.  :)  This machines sounds are stored on EPROM chips.  If you grow tired of the internal sounds (we could never get tired of them!) you can replace the internal sounds with other sounds on EPROM chips. Weve seen these available from time to time or you could always burn your own if you have an EPROM burner.

Here's this Linndrum playing the drum beat from Everything She Wants by Wham:

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Here's a video of one of another Linndrum we refurbished on the workbench with a couple of its sounds modulated by an external signal:

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