Client: Don't move any buttons, don't move any faders Me: In that case pay me first.

nightmare, especially with that "don't move any pot-fader" order.

Amateurs: "DON'T TOUCH THE KNOBS, BUTTONS, OR FADERS! (because we have no idea what they do)."

Not boring at all Markus. I hate working on mixers with single boards because of all the knobs, pot nuts and jack nuts to take off, not to mention the screws before you even get to the electronics. A great repair, well done!

Great job, Mark. That had to be so stressful when the owner said "don't move pots, or sliders". Well, at least we now have a snapshot of what settings they used. :)

WTF - can't move the pots? I certainly wouldn't commit to that - you want it fixed, take your own pictures and reset it after.

Thanks for that.. always good to see someone that knows what they are doing.. 10/10

Please repair my bicycle but don't change gears cause I'm a absolute moroon

Great job, these Allen and Heath are bullet proof I would not trust anything else for live or studio based on value for money. Great channel.

NEVER boring, and JUST in time!! I serviced my first mixer this week, on an older Behringer which was basically 1 board split in 3, and it was tedious enough to put me off tackling my far more massive Carvin desk.. but now I have hope that maybe I can get in there without stripping the entire thing down to a mess! Markus, you are a real treasure to so many of us!! 🙏👍👍

Good tips. Thanks for sharing this.

Great Video! I personally would have told them to print out a track sheet from A&H and write down all of their settings. I can't believe they hadn't already done that.

I'm so glad this popped up in my feed, if for no other reason than the "Q-Tip Tip" Thanks cotton bud!

Beautiful vid as ever. Very interesting too. I've taken a mackie 1604vlz to bits to clean a few crackly bits... Never again! Knobs everywhere! Haha.

I always love your videos. Your presentation is great and what you do is so daunting to me. Keep up the great work at making broken things work again!

That mix gain staging setup. Eek. I wonder how they got to that mix. Definitely they could see benefits from going digital if they don't run with an engineer on the road. Avoiding Soundcraft ui16, the UI24R is good, Also the Behringer rack mounted ones look great for band use.

Haha "Totally Ffff.... not in the best condition."

Even if you adjust them always the same, the sound would be very different, because every venue sounds different (resonant frequencies, dampening, etc). Thats not the way to do any sort of successful sound mixing. Better leave it to someone who knows what he/she is doing.

Let me get this straight... I can't touch the knob, faders, or buttons! Sorry, but I will not work under those conditions! I can't help you repair your board! FULL STOP!

I'd guess what happened to that jack was that someone tripped over the cable plugged into it, snapping the tip off the jack and breaking the threads. Always interesting to see inside different gear.

The temptation to move the pots...

Not boring at all. Good stuff.

maybe the black plastic screws were acting as spacers to avoid contact between the two boards?

Not a tip from a 1/4" mono plug? I got the tips stuck in my Komplete Audio 6 XLR combo jacks after pushing 1/4 mono cables in too far. They had a death grip on the plug and the pressed on tips pulled off when pulling on the cables. At least I can use XLR cables now. Great video.

always interesting Markus...deffo not boring. More videos please

THAT'S their fader settings? All on almost full!? That's gonna overdrive the summing circuits...

Great video Markus! (as always)

Good job Markus Fuller / Flash! Thumbs up! :) Indiana USA.

Love your videos :)

Hi Markus, I would bet a fair amount of money that if you quizzed the owners, you would find that the jack had a plug in it that took a mighty yank or hit, breaking off the end of the plug and the threads at the top in one event. I have seen this before in other gear... Cheers!

Subscribed! - KZfaq finally giving me decent recommendations!

The MacGyver of electronic repair :)

Tut. Just about to go to bed and then I see a new upload by Markus.....

13:07 Those little plastic posts that you tossed aside because they are "a complete waste of time" are stand-offs that support the board against (and isolate it from, electrically) the bottom of the case. Considering that this is "road gear", I hope the board doesn't work itself loose over time -- either pulling out of the connector on the top side or shorting one or more component leads against the metal bottom plate -- and kill the entire mixer (or, at least, the effects bus) as a result. That's probably not very *likely* considering that there is also a screw holding the middle of the board in place, but still, that was definitely *not* your most brilliant idea, mate! ;)

I believe it is the end of the line for the plastic cotton bud Markus

hi thanks for the jack info i pick up a betacam digial this week made like a tank lucky i had a spare card for the audio side as audio was playing up they are so easy to fix if you can get the parts i love your video's my mates got a akai 1720 i fixed for him

For those playing along at home, that connector is a Rean / Neutrik NYS215. I have tried to find them in the past but this video reminded me to search for them. Voilla! www.mouser.ca/ProductDetail/REAN-Neutrik/NYS215?qs=JfNPhaIww3IP3mAnpHYtWw==

Yes lots of crap can be found in sound mixers but also a mixture of liqueur can be found often from drunk people hanging over the mixer board and wish music and so, I was a service engineer back in the 80´s so I have seen a lot. 😎

Wow. You're fixing their mixer and they asked you not to change one setting? That seems completely unrealistic under most circumstances! I've been running live sound for decades and every gig/venue is different, so I don't even see the point. But hey, speaking of fixing A&H mixers, we have one at a venue where I occasionally work, and Aux5 is super low output and distorted. I'm thinking maybe it's the summing amp for that aux, but have heard nightmare stories about opening that mixer up. Wanna come across the pond to the states and help? :-)

Pedant's observation - A jack is a socket by definition.:-)

hi that's a brilliant video I just have a question I have a powered studio master desk with Jack outputs could this be changed to speakon outputs thanks

good job there pal ! and hats off for having the part even though you only had one but thats always how it seems to go isnt it ?

First board I self taught on

My cosole is also allen and heath zed 22fx,it has gain knob that is if i increase the range then a disrupting noise is takes place... Is there any solution

"Dismantle this huge mixer but don't move any of the 200+ knobs or faders on it." You're a far more patient man than me if you took that job.

Hi Mark, I'm looking for a couple of Neutrik NC3FIP female Xlr sockets for an old peavey mixer. Don't suppose you'd know of a source for them. They are obsolete now and I'm all out in my parts bin. Cheers.

I have an Allen and Heath Z24( No fx). Aux 1 and 2 are not working. I'm thinking that the contacts have been bent and therefore not making a connection with the jack. My question is, can the internal parts of the jack be accessed to bend the metal spring connection, or do i have to replace the jacks? Thank you for the very informative video.

I have a sennheiser ew 100 g1, the receiver is making a bunch of loud noice and can barely hear my voice, im thinking its the jack socket that is broken, cus i have tested with other cables

😂😂😂faders at full tilt. Why not bring up master fader and drop the faders a bit for some latitude.

3:14 F as in "press F to pay respects"

The jack had a phone plug tip broken off in the jack, a very common problem.

Take a close look at the EQ pots. You can bet that is sounds like crap if those setting are not properly adjusted.

Bro my allen heath Qu 32 digital mixer some times not working the touch screen and the faders and some times its all the switchs are not working and some faders are vibrate or not perfect working. How i can solve or solution pls give....

Markus, my headphone jack has broken off into the Headphone insert - the tip has completely got jammed in. How can I get it out without dismanteling my Audio Desk? It's a Hill Audio Soundmix 16track analogue mixer from the 70's ... I wish I could share a Picture? You can see the tip but I just don't want to cause any damage by just pulling it out - what is tricky is plyers wont fit in the hole.. Pete

rubber stoppers were probably there to prevent a short, in case the board falls out.

I had to tear into a bigger A&H years ago when I worked at the local University. Some idiot shorted the P and N pins on a channel with phantom power on. Fortunately I just had to identify the skid-marked resistors and replace them and it served for several more years.

While you are in there, might be a good idea to 'rugedise' it ie put silicone on the parts that are hanging down it looks just like my A&H with the long strip of ribbon cable that drops with vibration. I'm sure you can figure all that out.

Hello Mark I have a alan and heth mixer one of the monitor jack input dosant work .can I ask where about are you based cheers

i think the rubber pieces are there to prevent shorts but since they bearly stay properly in their holes.. kinda useless

That is so funny - but a familiar story.

easy fix

Check out 13:40... Do those gain controls seem a bit hot to anyone else?

Was that a TC electronic DB Max you used as a donor

"F" for Fillips Screw? :-)

good stuff.

Now that's what I call a Q _tip_!

Why can't you touch the faders...? Surely the band actually 'mix' with the faders during their gigs... maybe even adjust EQ settings and stuff...? 🤔🤔🤔

If you need to ping all faders at +10dB you're doing something wrong. And you never add the same amount of salt and pepper to every dish, so why would you leave all your pots and faders on the same settings?

Why would they ask you don't change anything? I'm a student sound engineer just wondering why someone would tell you not to touch any faders or pops? I mean when they go into a venue they have to do a line check anyway so...... does it matter if everything is just 0. Isnt that standard? Everything just set to 0. If they want pre sets why not just use a digital

That band should visit my church, their 'presets' won't last five seconds, there is always someone......

With the price of them now I would just tell them to get an X-AIR XR18, you can't knock the faders on the front of one of them as there are none!

Great

I've got one of those de-soldering irons, interesting you said 'they're great when they work!', do you mean when they do their job properly or do you mean when they actually heat up as in 'work'? Mine is so temperamental, often it just won't get hot at all, any ideas where to start looking for the problem, I've had it apart as far as it will tear apart but there's no obvious problems, sometimes giving it a smack can get it going but that's rare.

Total newbie question... so these sockets are unique to the manufacturer, or might you find one in a catalog if you lacked a "donor board"?

3:20 F is for faulty

Any time I fix my audio gear I use a large piece of form rubber.

Any one in the UK, needs ZED knobs or the little buttons. I have them for sale.

Pro Tip. In no way shape or form are ANY of those knobs or faders set for ANY type of performance. If they claim that they are then they won't notice any change in them. If you are commissioned to fix that board then its not your responsibility to make sure they are all back to where they were. If they can't set that board back up in ten minutes or less then they don't need to be operating it. That's like sending your Christmas Tree in to be trimmed with all the ornaments on it and expecting them all back in the same place. That's nonsense. Tell them to get realistic or get fucked.

Wood is good 👍

You mean _F_ for 'fubbed'?* * Fucked Up Beyond Belief

Ask ing a repair man to repair a mixing board and not touch any of the knobs is like asking a keyboard repairer to not touch any keys

Plz take our board completely apart and replace the socket and jack we smashed off by being careless... but DO *NOT* CHANGE ANY SETTINGS b/c we are totally unreasonable dumfuks who are too stupid or lazy or both to reset them for ourselves. SO - what you should do for them is CA glue (superglue) every last control in place before you start the disassembly. That will ensure their mix is frozen in time, for all time.

FAULTY is the word you were looking for...right? 😉

sorry, but I just can't keep watching this, the "can't touch the knobs" part is just too infuriating

Bollocks to em’! They want it fixed m, they have to accept that you will move some of the pots! Bloody amateurs!

the band got to be cave men band what if something very bad went in the mixer like the power unit i would never ever use this for gig's this is a uk mixer deck they use RS stock jack sockets

OMG!! Don’t move the knobs, are you kidding me? Is it a drummer only band? Lmao, that’s pretty good construction design from A&H

That band must suck if they can't reliably do a sound check more than once in a lifetime... Ridiculous!

Yeah well.... fix it yourself then!

Don't touch the knobs? Laughable! Amateurs! Monkey see monkey do!