my mixer is driving me crazy! techical question..

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Posted by progressivepey on Mar-12-2004 06:27:

my mixer is driving me crazy! techical question..

so i'm so frustrated..

last week i took my mixer to spin at a clothing store in pacific beach and it worked great. i brought it home and i can't freaking get the thing to work properly. here are the symptoms..

one turntable works perfectly.. the other works well, but plays music much louder out of one speaker than the other. it also plays the music a hell of a lot louder on the left side of my earphones, making it difficult to beatmatch due to the conflicting volumes.

i've checked my connections and i have even taken the mixer apart and connected everything numerous times. i know it's not a problem with the connections. my speakers work fine, i've checked them. my headphones also work fine. i believe it is a problem with my mixer. have any of you ever had this problem? if so how do i fix it? do you think the setup at the clothing store someone shorted one input of my mixer?

i'm driving myself crazy trying to figure this out because it makes it very hard to mix when you can't hear equal volumes out both sides of your headphones. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

pEy

Posted by Psiweaver on Mar-12-2004 06:49:

sounds like it doesn't have balanced output anymore, it also could be that one channel is slightly messed up inside the mixer and as a result is much quieter.

Posted by progressivepey on Mar-12-2004 07:04:

the funny thing is..

when i tried out the mixer at the store i spun at.. it was doing the exact same thing. one channel plays really quietly and the other plays normally, making it near impossible to match up the volumes of the two channels.

do you think that the amp somehow shorted out one of the channels of my mixer? that's the only logical explanation i can come up with. i knew i should have never accepted that damn clothing store gig..

pEy

Posted by diesel0 on Mar-12-2004 11:35:

What kind of mixer is it? I have a behringer VMX300 and it has a bunch of buttons on the back which can cause the above to happen. See if you got any of those in the back and fiddle around wit em.

Im not a pro, but i ran into the same problem once too, i freaked then accidentally pressed the button and it was fine again.

Good luck.

Posted by razzi on Mar-12-2004 12:24:

damn.. that same thing happened to me. right now the volume from one channel is softer on the left side (coming out of my mixer). its damn annoying, and i havent been able to fix it.. i hope someone knows whats wrong with our boxes

Posted by progressivepey on Mar-12-2004 18:42:

stanton sk6

quote:
Originally posted by diesel0
What kind of mixer is it? I have a behringer VMX300 and it has a bunch of buttons on the back which can cause the above to happen. See if you got any of those in the back and fiddle around wit em.

My mixer isn't the most expensive mixer in the world.. it doesn't even have mids, but it gets the job done. it's a stanton SK6. "professional battle mixer" ... yeah right. anyways, it's a really simple unit to use, it doesn't have any buttons on the back of the mixer; the mixer is pretty much plug and play.

still frustrated as hell
pEy

Posted by progressivepey on Mar-13-2004 08:30:

turns out i figured out what the problem was..

it was literally driving me a bit crazy.. so i unplugged everything, grabbed a philips screw driver and removed all the screws in my mixer. i opened the thing up and found a loose circuit board connecting into the second channel my cheap ass stanton mixer. so it was that easy.. i plugged the thing back in and put all the screws back (except for a few extra ones, how did i get extra screws?) i turned the thing on and all is well once again.

i am happy to announce the thing is working great once again and i recorded a sick ass mix tonight!

pEy

Posted by Zombie0729 on Mar-13-2004 08:54:

haha nice. hey lets spin bro, i live in SD too.

Posted by CraSHer[UK] on Mar-13-2004 17:45:

quote:
Originally posted by progressivepey
i plugged the thing back in and put all the screws back (except for a few extra ones, how did i get extra screws?)

hehe, extra screws

Posted by progressivepey on Mar-13-2004 19:18:

for sure let's spin..

quote:
Originally posted by Zombie0729
haha nice. hey lets spin bro, i live in SD too.

yeah i'm totally down to spin. check your inbox for a message.

pEy