Repairs

Customer had some 2m long XLR cables they wanted shortening to use as patch leads, and make 4 out of 1. With two pairs, 2m each of green, light green and white Klotz cable this made up 24 patch leads in total. Fingers are sore! Heat-shrink sleeved the shield for neatness and prevent any potential […]

Another customer recommendation brought this unit in to see if an odd problem could be resolved – a ‘flubbing’ sound that occurs when armed for recording and levels above -10dB on meters. The unit was pristine, inside and out – looks like it had hardly been used. At first the issue couldn’t be replicated –

Customer brought in this 25 year old unit stating that it no longer works properly – turntable starts up and then stops a few seconds later. Switched over to a spare alternative and the turntable works, so wanted me to look at this unit. Looked inside and immediately obvious that two capacitors were bulging and

Customer reports that amplifier switches on but won’t click onto the source enabling it to play music. Found that half the power supply was not working, +63V rail was missing from which 5v logic and +24v rails are derived. Thermal imagery showed that the area of the PSU board with the regulator pass through transistors

This cassette deck was stored in an attic for many years. Unfortunately no longer worked when tried, couldn’t open door etc. Saw pinch roller at the bottom of the box and luckily the retaining pin was floating around inside the unit. A quick look at the mechanism confirmed worst fears – the belts had reverted

Customer brought this in with a nasty rattling sound and wanted a good going over, as hadn’t been used in a while and had some issues. All the tactile push buttons were oxidised and had to be stripped to be cleaned, restoring functionality. New batteries and backlight EL panel were ordered and arrived, testing the

Customer had these 10m long cables and wanted to make 4 x shorter 5m ones out of two. Expensive – but very high quality – locking 6.35mm in-line sockets from Neutrik (excuse the messy paper towel!): Then the other end, used Rean RP3C-BAG – could be classed as ‘Neutrik-lite’ plugs: Coiled back up (properly –

Customer had this unit stored away for years and wanted to use it again, but found it wasn’t working properly, making an awful buzzing sound. This Akai 4000DS MkII is a nice machine but in a bit of a state perhaps was in a damp area, had to clean a good portion of switches (particularly

Customer acquired this effects unit but there was a broken knob that was tried to be glued back in place, only fix is replacement, which was fairly awkward to get to, and all of the pushbutton retaining clips were breaking off due to aged brittle plastic which made things a bit trickier as they kept

Customer said was using mixer and just died mid-performance, had been difficult to power up a few times previously but once running was ok, now doesn’t power on at all. Dead PSU. Tested and wasn’t getting power to pins on connector, which looks like a custom moulded plug for the Spirit mixer, making replacement a