Micro Vibe - speed mod?

[monkmiles]

Anyone aware of a mod to the voodoo lab micro vibe to increase the speed? It doesn't get quite fast enough for me.

[petemoore]

  If it's of SMT type construction, it's hard to get at the part to do anything [the potlugs of course can be seen, but they're soldered to the PCB IIRC.
  Otherwise, starting with a schematic or looking for an oscillating voltage [to identify the LFO output]..then, around that area is probably a capacitor, value changes would index the speed range.

[monkmiles]

I've now read where some have replaced the R2 resistor (3.3k) with a jumper top increase the speed. Anyone here tried this? By jumper, I'm assuming they just mean a wire.

[monkmiles]

I got around to trying the replacement of the R2 resistor with a jumper. I was also able to record a quick sample of before/after the mod.

It definitely worked! It gets faster and comes closer to copping rotating speaker fast leslie-like tones at its top speed.

Here's the clip, you guys can let me know if you hear the difference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYdqAmX3UOs