Re: Soundcraft mixer gain pot failure
- From: "Peter Kolbe" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:43:59 +0200
First guess is either some 'Gunk' has gotten into the pot,
or that one of the connections between the pot and the board have become
broken/loose/bad solder joint.
Peter
"Erik Walthinsen" <omega@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dv5lpm030j7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
At church we've got a Soundcraft Spirit LX7 24-channel mixer, about 7-8
years old, working fine until we took it apart a month ago for significant
cleaning. ;-(
Everything works *except* for the gain pot on one of the channels (of
course, *the* most frequently used channel... /me strangles Murphy). Over
the last few weeks it's exhibited various symptoms, then worked fine for
quite a while, then failed, then worked, etc...
The current failure mode, which seems persistent, basically has the gain
of the mic preamp cranked way up. With the gain pot at "zero" (below
unity), I get a signal that seems roughly comparable with a normally
functional channel with the gain pot cranked all the way up. If you turn
the pot clockwise, the gain goes up even further, well beyond what is
useful or safe.
I haven't yet done exhaustive tests with the rest of the channel strip,
but I believe that the failure is contained within the preamp. I know the
circuit is pretty darn simple, consisting exclusively IIRC of little
8-SOIC opamps and passives. I don't remember if there were any discrete
transistors around, but if so there aren't too many, and they're really
tiny ;-(
We'll have an oscilloscope to debug this, and of course there are 23 other
channels to reference against, but does anyone have any early hints as to
where to start looking, or what kind of failed component we might be
looking at? Knowing the little I do about analog design, I strongly
suspect a walking-wounded op-amp from some kind of un-noticed static
discharge during our cleaning. It could also be a physical failure,
either loose wire (unlikely as there are no wires in the *middle* of the
circuit, just on the input and output sides) or loose trace.
Anyway, I'd appreciate any hints, and I'll try to make sure to post an
update once we've dug into the board. We have a few months before we
*must* have it fixed, as there are spare channels I've moved that mic over
to for the moment, but come July we're gonna need the *whole* board.
TIA,
Omega
aka Erik Walthinsen
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