
MISTERQCUE
Not Just Anutha Brutha
Ok - don't shoot me before I speak, I've just had two new engines fitted in my wagon in the last two months, at stupid cost, and I'd love to buy a new mackie or similar, but first I've got to get the behringer mx8000 fixed - to do the work - to get the money - to pay for the motor and new mixer .....
Sorry, had to do the preface thing, I know there are a lot of [understandable] behringer slaters out there. Here's the detail ...
mx8000, working fine, then odd thing happens. My main solo/pfl [red] led goes on, with a selection of channel led's coming on [varying brightness - the -20 green ones]. At present, green led's are channels 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 23. Just switched ON/OFF afyter it happened again and it's all fired up fine. Not so good mid session though, obviously!!
... I'm sure there's someone out there who's had the same problem.
Believe me, if I had the money at the moment, I'd get rid immediately and get something 'more professional'. At this point in time, that's not possible.
I've been advised, and through internet search, it seems that it may be overheating, or the transformer is on the way out, or the 18v rail has a problem. I've noone local and reputable to take it to, so I'd rather work out what the problem is, before I get charged up to £250/US$500 for someone to fleece me and tell me it's stuffed.
I obviously get crackly audio through the monitors when it occurs, but the one really weird thing is that when it happens, and then when I SLOWLY flick the power switch OFF - then back ON on the power supply, the sound comes back - albeit for a moment half way across the switching [something discharging??]. Sometimes it happens after 5 minutes of power up, sometimes after 7 hours. I'm done with logic and common sense.
Any help appreciated - even bitching behringer comments if they're constructive to my situation!
As prev'ly stated somewhat, Beh-scum-ger's MX line are equipped with unnecessarily large pwr trnsformers which produce an excessive amount of heat with inadequate means of dissipation For some inexplicable reason, Beh
constructed a vent system so poor that rather than the heat to flow out & away from the unit's circuitry, it is instead spread thru the unit's circuit board
creating havoc followed by blowouts/power failures. Making matters worst was trying to figure out why in the world Beh-sux-ger would create "MX" mixers with no ON/OFF power switch (evidenced by the "2624"<or was it the 2426">).
In some cases, some have found relief from heat-buildup by incorporating a fan, others replacing the pwr transformer. My advice; trade it in for a ham & cheese sammich and a Barry Bonds baseball card.