Tascam M320

[Poulsbo Slim]

Hi guys, any suggestions on cleaning out these boards? Just bought this mixer at a pretty sweet deal and I'm stoked. I love the sound and features of my 388's mixer, so... pretty happy to start using this for recording/live sound with my band's rehearsals. The guy who sold it to me suggested I take it to an electronics store to be gone through and cleaned. I'm wondering how intensive that is and if I could do it myself, not having a whole lot of knowledge with that yet. I'm guessing cleaning a board is a little more intensive than going through all the pots with deoxit. Since it seems expensive to take it to an electronics shop, any suggestions on cleaning one of these? Thanks!

 

[The Ghost of FM]

The guy who sold it to me suggested I take it to an electronics store to be gone through and cleaned.

Did the seller indicate if there were any specific issues with the mixer that needed to be serviced? Or was that bit of advice just offered up as a good thing to do, like brushing your teeth, type of advice?

Have you plugged in the mixer yet and tried it out yourself, at this point? Are there any specific issues you/ve found?

Otherwise, you could just open up the bottom panels and go to town on it with a couple of cans of compressed air to blow the dust out of it, if there is any?

And before you get out the can of Deox-it, try exercising the knobs, faders and switches first just by rotating/sliding/pushing them on and off. That can often clear up any minor crud build ups before you get out the chemicals.

Cheers!

 

[Poulsbo Slim]

Thanks Ghost, I'll try all that first. Yeah, it was just his way of helping me out and saying he'd owned it for years without getting serviced so he thought I'd get more out of it that way, sound quality-wise. The only thing that seems to be not functioning properly is bus 4 (I think I'm right in calling it "bus"? The four orange faders). Thanks for the advice.