Most modern small venue mixers are constructed onto a single printed circuit board (PCB). To do any work on them I have to remove every knob and nut (Too many knobs and nuts, like a gay night club). That’s an hours labour before I even get to find the fault and fix it.
Kam mixer dissassembled
I used to burn the midnight hours coding computer programs. This bracken fern style picture is generated by a fractal generator I wrote from scratch. I think the program got deleted (probably on a non-readable floppy disk somewhere!). The fractal was generated in monochrome at a very high resolution then each pixels intensity was set by the number of hits within its bounds. I then gave it a green tinge.
Fuck all to do with amp repairs though!
August:
Tony from Oldham’s ‘A Band Of Gypsies’ (ABOG Reverb Nation and on North west bands) had some work done on his Marshall DSL 50. He didn’t like the fist pair of EL34’s I put in so I changed them for a pair of pricey but highly praised Svetlana Winged C’s. They were Hot running high gain selected tubes for that bluesy compressed late break up.
I also fixed a couple of Marshall 4×12 cabs for Tony. The jack socket switch contacts always go on them so I replace them with Neutrik gold plated jobbies that should last a bit longer.
Tony from ‘A Band Of Gypsies’ and his Marshall JCM2000 DSL50.
In July I had a visit from local prog rock artist John Graham of the band Ontofield (see www.ontofield.com). His Blackstar needed a couple of new tubes.
Hadfield prog rock artist John Graham of Ontofield