Stuck Mute Button on Mackie 1604-VLZ

[Fontcow]

Pardon me if this isn't the proper forum to post this, but I took out my mixer from being in its case for the past few months and did a check through on all the buttons/knobs and to my horror the Mute button on channel 8 is stuck in the Mute position rendering channel 8 unusable. When it is depressed, it doesn't "click" and disengage. It just kind of kind of pushes in and out a bit, but doesn't click. Bummer.

Is this a common thing that will happen to eventually all of the buttons and just how expensive is this going to be to fix? And just where do you take high-end equipment like this to be fixed so somebody doesn't screw it up?

Thanks in advance.

 

[camn]

heh. High end.

You send it to Mackie if you want a guaranteed non screwed up job. Cuz they can replace any parts they break

Anyone can screw up.. but odds are your fix is so easy my mom could do it.

Go to radio shack. Get some TUNER CONTROL CLEANER/LUBRICANT

not just cleaner.. or just lube. Spray it right on the switch and push it a dozen times. That'll probly fix it.

IF IT DONT! take it to someone with a screwdriver. They'll take it apart and do the same without the casing in the way. THAT should do it!

IF IT DONT! find someone with a soldering iron to put a new switch in. . . or whatever it needs.

xoxo