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aamp
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Hello,
I am new to the site and was hoping I could share my new find with you. I have been creating music on the computer now for nearly nine years. Nothing serious and mostly as a hobby.
I have hundreds of tracks that I have made since I could make music on the computer back in 2001. I was fifteen and a friend and I used to use a speaker out of an old console TV as a microphone to record vocals.
As years had gone by, I picked up a couple of Yamaha consumer keyboards at retail stores and was content with the quality of this brand for what I do of course. At that time, I was doing a lot of recording with these keyboards without a mixing console, just through the line in jack of my computer but was soon very limited by a small amount of disc space (10GB).
I became very limited in every aspect of my computers inabilities to keep up with my progression and eventually bought a Sony laptop. With the laptop, I became mobile and started hanging out at friends jams where I would offer to record their sessions. One thing led to another, and the next thing I knew, I was in a music store buying a mixer (my home made one wasn't cutting it anymore).
I bought a small Yamaha mixer; I guess you could say that Yamaha was beginning to become my brand and I was pleased with it.
Just last week, I was walking up my back lane and saw a piece of stereo equipment sitting on top of a trash can. I used to gather things like this up without any hesitation when I was in my teenage years, but now don't want to collect too much junk. I did a double take as I walked by it and noticed that it had a pile of 1/4" phone jacks on the front panel of it. I decided to take a look.
When I got closer, I realized it was a very old vintage mixer, so I grabbed it being as I am interested in that sort of thing. As I walked home, I dusted the snow off which revealed it was a very old Yamaha mixer.
I got it home and soon found out that it did not work. It just blew fuses like crazy. I tried doing some internet searches for the model # and could not even come up with a picture. I did learn that it was from 1972.
With what little knowledge of electrical I have, I carefully started cutting wires between circuits to see if I could isolate the problem. Long story short, I thought I was pretty sure I found which component was bad, but didn't know what it was called.
I consulted a friend of mine who is a border line electrical engineer, and he seemed to suggest that it was a bridge rectifier diode. I happened to have one of these on hand from an old school project ten years ago, so I thought I had nothing to lose. I hooked it in and it worked!
It took me four days to complete the repairs, and I was very close to cutting the cord on it prior to solving it, but my determination on saving this little guy because of its age and brand makes it live again.
I love the sound of it and everything works again!
Since there was no picture of it on the internet, I thought I should share my photo of it, and this site came up a couple of times while searching.
I still have yet to mess around with it, but it should be neat to play with.
Hope you enjoyed seeing this piece of old equipment as much as I enjoyed getting it working again. I later found out that it was Yamaha's first mixer.
Thanks.
Aamp out.
I am new to the site and was hoping I could share my new find with you. I have been creating music on the computer now for nearly nine years. Nothing serious and mostly as a hobby.
I have hundreds of tracks that I have made since I could make music on the computer back in 2001. I was fifteen and a friend and I used to use a speaker out of an old console TV as a microphone to record vocals.
As years had gone by, I picked up a couple of Yamaha consumer keyboards at retail stores and was content with the quality of this brand for what I do of course. At that time, I was doing a lot of recording with these keyboards without a mixing console, just through the line in jack of my computer but was soon very limited by a small amount of disc space (10GB).
I became very limited in every aspect of my computers inabilities to keep up with my progression and eventually bought a Sony laptop. With the laptop, I became mobile and started hanging out at friends jams where I would offer to record their sessions. One thing led to another, and the next thing I knew, I was in a music store buying a mixer (my home made one wasn't cutting it anymore).
I bought a small Yamaha mixer; I guess you could say that Yamaha was beginning to become my brand and I was pleased with it.
Just last week, I was walking up my back lane and saw a piece of stereo equipment sitting on top of a trash can. I used to gather things like this up without any hesitation when I was in my teenage years, but now don't want to collect too much junk. I did a double take as I walked by it and noticed that it had a pile of 1/4" phone jacks on the front panel of it. I decided to take a look.
When I got closer, I realized it was a very old vintage mixer, so I grabbed it being as I am interested in that sort of thing. As I walked home, I dusted the snow off which revealed it was a very old Yamaha mixer.
I got it home and soon found out that it did not work. It just blew fuses like crazy. I tried doing some internet searches for the model # and could not even come up with a picture. I did learn that it was from 1972.
With what little knowledge of electrical I have, I carefully started cutting wires between circuits to see if I could isolate the problem. Long story short, I thought I was pretty sure I found which component was bad, but didn't know what it was called.
I consulted a friend of mine who is a border line electrical engineer, and he seemed to suggest that it was a bridge rectifier diode. I happened to have one of these on hand from an old school project ten years ago, so I thought I had nothing to lose. I hooked it in and it worked!
It took me four days to complete the repairs, and I was very close to cutting the cord on it prior to solving it, but my determination on saving this little guy because of its age and brand makes it live again.
I love the sound of it and everything works again!
Since there was no picture of it on the internet, I thought I should share my photo of it, and this site came up a couple of times while searching.
I still have yet to mess around with it, but it should be neat to play with.
Hope you enjoyed seeing this piece of old equipment as much as I enjoyed getting it working again. I later found out that it was Yamaha's first mixer.
Thanks.
Aamp out.
