[gareth magennis]

"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ...

wrote:
On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:02:52 AM UTC-5, Scott Dorsey wrote:
wrote:

I know someone who has been doing that with a Tapco of all things. She's
up to nearly 40 years now. It's had new caps and a bunch of new pots,
but
it's still the same Tapco.

I think 90% of the reason for this is that the Tapco controls are not
directly board-mounted.

Tapco is low end line of Mackie. Does Mackie lasts even more than that? I
have 15 year old Mackie 32-8, but it never left the studio.

I would be worried about the current Mackies because the controls are board
mounted, so if there is stress on the panel or the frame it is apt to damage
the controls. The advantage of the old Tapcos is that the whole frame can
flex without damage. A lot of older mixers were built that way, but it's
much more expensive than putting everything on the board because it requires
hand assembly. So you will only find that sort of construction on more
expensive products today.
--scott




Here's a series to avoid in that respect:

http://sales.adlibsolutions.co.uk/ya...n&currency=GBP


For some unfathomable reason, Yamaha elected to fit knobs on this mixer
series that were a smaller diameter than the holes punched in the top panel.
Since all the pots are PCB mounted in groups of 6 channels, that means that
pressure or a blow to the top surface forces all the knobs through the top
panel, breaking the PCB's.

I have seen a few of these catastophes now, and still scratch my head,
wondering what on earth Yamaha were thinking.


Gareth.