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Hello everyone,
I'm new here but have learned quite a lot from looking around this forum. I figured that you all might be interested in seeing some photos of the Tascam M-35 mixer I'm restoring.
I bought this from a local Good will for a great price. I took it home and spent a few weekends cleaning out all of the pots and faders, and taking a look at the internals which all appear to be in good shape. Someone did a little soldering on one of the channels (looks like a minor repair) but other than that it's gorgeous inside.
Four channels work perfectly and the other four are extremely quiet (regardless of where they're slotted) All of the routing, bussing, and I/O work fine with the working channels. The meters work as do the clipping LEDs but the meter lights don't.
These mixers seem to be fairly rare or, at least information on them is pretty rare. I was able to find the user manual online but the service manual was nowhere to be found - not for free, not for purchase, no matter who I reached out to.
I spent the past 7+ months hunting down a service manual for this thing and *finally* got my hands on an original one just about two weeks ago so I'm looking forward to digging into this when I get some time. I'm going to recap the power section for sure and also track down where the issues are in the channels and meter lights, but I'm confident that I'll get it worked out eventually. I'm in no rush.
I have many more photos and, of course, the elusive service manual. If anyone needs any photos of the mixer or pages from the manual please let me know.
Here are a few photos:
Before cleanup - fizzy water can for reference:
After cleanup (I did replace the missing knobs with a replacements):
Modular channels makes this very easy to work on:
Channel strip:
I/O:
An idea of the grime that had to be removed:
Manual:
Hello everyone,
I'm new here but have learned quite a lot from looking around this forum. I figured that you all might be interested in seeing some photos of the Tascam M-35 mixer I'm restoring.
I bought this from a local Good will for a great price. I took it home and spent a few weekends cleaning out all of the pots and faders, and taking a look at the internals which all appear to be in good shape. Someone did a little soldering on one of the channels (looks like a minor repair) but other than that it's gorgeous inside.
Four channels work perfectly and the other four are extremely quiet (regardless of where they're slotted) All of the routing, bussing, and I/O work fine with the working channels. The meters work as do the clipping LEDs but the meter lights don't.
These mixers seem to be fairly rare or, at least information on them is pretty rare. I was able to find the user manual online but the service manual was nowhere to be found - not for free, not for purchase, no matter who I reached out to.
I spent the past 7+ months hunting down a service manual for this thing and *finally* got my hands on an original one just about two weeks ago so I'm looking forward to digging into this when I get some time. I'm going to recap the power section for sure and also track down where the issues are in the channels and meter lights, but I'm confident that I'll get it worked out eventually. I'm in no rush.
I have many more photos and, of course, the elusive service manual. If anyone needs any photos of the mixer or pages from the manual please let me know.
Here are a few photos:
Before cleanup - fizzy water can for reference:
After cleanup (I did replace the missing knobs with a replacements):
Modular channels makes this very easy to work on:
Channel strip:
I/O:
An idea of the grime that had to be removed:
Manual:
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