I am sitting here with my coffee crying with laughter.. I am going to try right now!!..thank you so much..Best wishes

@AntonBrowne

2 жыл бұрын

Have fun, but spraying with switch cleaner works better/longer. See subsequent video.

Glad you are back on the SV33 - even after KZread compression you can really hear the difference.

I have a 1995 Mackie 1604 which I will never get rid of. It was built when Mackie was located in Washington state, USA. They were a fledgling company started by a local Seattle musician who was tired of using crappy commercial gear. He built the originals to survive time and persist in clean quality signaling and reliability. ~I bought my PROFX8 5 years ago and in less than a year it began the deteriorization of the pots. clean em , wiggle em. They have a life and death cycle of mystery popping in and out as they see fit.~ I bought a Focusrite 6i6 after that and tried using it hybrid style with my Mackie 1604 since, of course, the 1995 mixer has no USB connectivity. That works,,,, not too great either. I am curious about the new Korg/Mackie hybrid boards but simply cannot rely on Mackie built in China enough to risk the investment. Sad , such a great company to begin with, felt compelled to cash in on Chinese marketing rather than maintain the renowned quality of their once highly esteemed Hardware. My 1995 1604 performs flawlessly to this day.

@AntonBrowne

2 жыл бұрын

You know what? I was disappointed because the desk is great for the money, just what all the advances in technology should be able to offer - otherwise what's the point? I'm sure they could build it to last, for not much more in price, but then how would they sell the next 'update'? I see the problem, and I guess we all have to change our expectations. The planet surely can't tolerate such behaviour for much longer... well, the planet can, but it won't be hospitable for us!

@mark-ze4en

2 жыл бұрын

@@AntonBrowne that's absolutely correct. I think the Industrial powers that be build a PC or even a Mac to last about two iterations of basic upgrades and then they crap out or the drivers are no longer supported(ie my 2006 Yamaha Motif ES7.. Meanwhile ,the studios that can afford them are using U47 microphones that were designed by the NAZI's in WW2. And, they still sound freeking amazing. I'd like to get a reliable PC that I know will run Thunderbolt 4, but with windows 11 coming and all the added "popular" junk they put in for the average consumer pc what will I need in terms of components to survive for 10 years. I'm old enough (71) that I may have a few years of recording and playing and I don't want to waste it changing gears every 4 or 5 years. HEY BIDEN,, let's talk about some good old consumer protection before we let the Oligarchs take over. Peace Bro! I'll be starting those 100 tweeks per POT today.

@mark-ze4en

2 жыл бұрын

Having said all that. Twisting knobs 100 each did resolve some issue so I am grateful for that 🙏. When one is the only working entity in a studio every little thing that goes wrong becomes an inspiration killer. Moving forward just the same.

@stevengorum5486

Жыл бұрын

I can't agree with you more technology goes up a little bit and then the quality goes down quite a bit

Thank you!! My problem was with the monitor knobs. I checked out a few other videos that addressed the problem and they all required you to open the unit and spray electronic cleaner directly into the pots, which I completely expected I had to do... and dreaded. This was such an easy fix. I'm hoping it lasts, but it is doesn't, it's still a simple short term fix. btw... great voice!!

Had the same issue the gain pots kept cutting out the signal, I bought it at Sam Ash in Orlando Florida and took to Ecuador south America and after a year of being stored I noticed the gain pots issues, after the warranty was over thank you for the tips

@AntonBrowne

3 жыл бұрын

Just been using my Bose 1800 Series 1 power amp from the early '80's. It's been sat for 2 years recently. Fired her up, no problems and the pots... silent. What's the excuse today?

You could also pull the knob off, and spray some contact cleaner down in there. I had to do that to my Yamaha mg16/4. By the way, I. enjoy your channel very much.

Thanks! Totally fixed the issue I was having with my gain pots.

@AntonBrowne

3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear! Bear in mind, you may have to do it again... and again... and! Unacceptable in my view but enjoy it whilst it works.

What happen is is dust and dirt accumulates down inside the control. By turning the knobs back and forth is a temporary fix. When more dust and dirt drops down inside affecting the controls by making static noises a better suggestion is to clean out the mixing board using air pressure from a can and better yet take the cover off the mixing board and use 100% cleaning alcohol for the longer solution.

@AntonBrowne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I have decades old gear that is used live and still works fine. This desk started having problems after a year of sitting on a desk - covered up when not in use. Taking the cover off is not so easy and I might cause more damage than I fix! Taking the knobs off and trying to spray down the shaft seems to work. I have done the troublesome trim pots, only another 14 pots to go. Why is this needed after only a year... progress, I guess?

I bought a new Mackie MIX8 and the MAIN MIX pot was noisy right out of the box! I got a new replacement that was perfect out of the box, but that lasted only a few weeks before the PHONES level and the Channel 5/6 pots became noisy. WTF, Mackie! If I spin the pots a few times the noise goes away, but only for a short while. I've been tempted to open it up and spray some Deoxit D5 in all the pots, but I'll try the 100 sweeps method first.

@AntonBrowne

9 ай бұрын

Please see my later post, Enduring Fix.... Reasonably confident mine is sorted.

@dbcanada

9 ай бұрын

@@AntonBrowne Thank you.

It worked! Thanks a lot!!!

@AntonBrowne

3 жыл бұрын

Spoiler Alert! Not for long, and now my EQ and Mutes are playing up. Spending half an hour twiddling every knob before each session is a passion killer, but I hope you have better luck.

I have that same mixer and noticed some faint high pitch squealing almost like a feedback loop when i bring up the fx channel. I wont even have anything plugged into it except headphones. Its very annoying but luckily i just use the thing for zero latency monitor to add a little reverb to monitor with so im not recording anything from it but i wondered if youve experienced the same at all?

@AntonBrowne

4 жыл бұрын

I have just tested mine and all I get is additional hiss when maxing all effects controls. I think you will have to do some tedious testing before concluding that it's faulty - lights, computers, phones, cables (though you say nothing is plugged in) etc. Good luck.

It's also my observation: Pots in my 44 year old Fender ProReverb and 42 year old Vibrolux still work fine (and I never changed them), the ones in my 20 year old SWR bass amp crackle like hell - maybe this has to do with the bigger size of these old Fender pots, compared to the tiny ones that SWR used 20 years later, soldered directly to the PCB - and ironically, that makes these harder to replace, too...

Back and forth fast and hard and kind of pull up as you're doing it or push down as you're doing it kind of get rough with it back and forth hard fast

i have an very old mackie the first model they made like a tank it stood for years in a humid place, smoke,everything and still no crackling no hiss or hum and 2 years ago i bought a new one for a school i work an after 6 months the same problems like you had. i have a very old ( 45 years!!!!) soundcraft sound board 16 channel in a flight case still 1 class performance so i think we can say some things where better these days i buy stuff from a guy from germany „reussenzehn“ he makes stuff like in the old days and many thanks for the „100 twist trick“

You need to get pod spray cleaner or pod cleaner spray and spray it in there as best you can and then go back and forth real fast from from Lodi back and forth back forth the whole extent real fast as fast as you can till your risk gets sore and turns blue and falls off

@AntonBrowne

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip! Oh there's about 20 pots and you have to do it all again in a month or two. Strangely, my 40 year old gear is just fine without any of that.

I love Mackie Sound. I don’t like their cheapskate Electronics. The ribbon cables in their DL32Rr digital mixer corrode and needs reseating every now and the. But being out and about doing Sound, you don’t want malfunctioning equipment..

This is a huge problem these days and it exists because of the really cheap pots they use today absolute garbage, example I have a few Mackie mixers even older ones and a slightly newer one and they have issues and are very scratchy, some don't even fade the volume completely. I have a UREI 1620 over 25 years old it has probably some of the best pots ever made black beauty's they still feel the same and not one of its 9 fader pots has any static at all, they all fade to infinity just as when they were new, unlike the junk they put in today's mixers that if your lucky the pot will not be too off between the left and the right channels as you decrease the volume. I have found most to be off slightly. While I know they cant put the best pots in these inexpensive mixers I get that, but common they need to at least use something with enough quality to price ratio that it lasts for a while. A year is not acceptable at all in my opin, when as you said you have older gear and it does not have this issue. Even more expensive stuff is just missing the build quality that once was, O how I miss those days when you could buy something and expect it to last.

@AntonBrowne

2 жыл бұрын

Call me a sceptic, but I find it difficult to believe that reliable pots that were made in their millions over many decades, are now too expensive to provide in modern equipment! We have made so many advances in materials and manufacturing that I would imagine modern pots would be cheap as chips, more accurate, and last 50 years + unless... you don't want them to.

@vidworxsfx

2 жыл бұрын

@@AntonBrowne Yes and no modern pots are cheap but that's it there just cheap with little to no quality. While sure we have advanced a lot in how we make these things a really top notch stereo pot will always cost more as its not as easy to make one where the left and right have very close tolerances I am sure you have noticed, as most of these cost effective pots are off between the left and the right as you fade out, in comparison to better ones where the left and right channels are nearly identical. So I really think they just don't want to use the better pots as crazy as it may sound I think this is where they are cutting costs and its really as you see not a place to skimp. In fact if I saw a mixer and it said we use only Sealed Alps Pots that's the one I would surly pay extra for. Not sure what Mackie is using in these non USA built models but its obviously not good quality if you had issues that quickly.

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Unacceptably slow delivery. Edit out your silences or be more prepared for the video.

@AntonBrowne

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It was an off-the-cuff video to maybe help a few people out. If they can't bear the doing-it-as-I-go delivery, they certainly won't be able to bear the actual process!

Twiddle your knobs gentlemen …