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my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Mon Jun 10, 2013 5:29 pm
by Mikel30
hy everybody,

hy i am new here and have a problem with my newly bought mackie d8b on my screen I can make everything just because my mixer faders are not moving and when I turn potentiometers to also does nothing. When I line in an audio signal and send also comes to nothing when I press play, the lamp only flashes of play and will not play.
what can someone help me there may be more, or what I'm doing wrong?

greetings mike

Re: my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:19 pm
by Mikel30
cant anybody help me? :-(

Re: my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 7:53 pm
by Casey_Pittman
Do you have the DATA cable connected from the CPU to the Console? Not just the power cable.
Does the display on the console say anything(an error code perhaps)?

You didn't really give much to go on.

-Casey

Re: my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:22 pm
by Crash
What Casey said. Give us more about your set up.

Re: my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:49 pm
by Mikel30
sorry but my englisch is not very good i am from germany so sorry for my bad englisch.

i have connect all the data cable and the power cable the console starts normaly and the cpu too.
i can not do the fader on the display and the fader on the cosole didnt do anything and i became no singnal on the channels.
is this d8b damage?

thank you

greets mike

Re: my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 11:52 pm
by hyaena
Hi Mike,

so I´m from Germany as well, and I would try to help you.
Give me a call tomorrow and I will try to help you:
(0)173-7389348
or send an EMail:
mdeppe(at)arcor(dot)de

Manfred

Re: my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 7:33 am
by Maloik
What does the Display of the d8b say?
Are the I/O cards and the FX cards being recognized while booting?

I have had some trouble with the power supply....After cleaning the ribbon cables because of loss of audio, the power connectors from the power supply to the different d8b cards (brain card, DSP card, efx backplane) became a bit lose I think. So while booting the d8b display said "empty" at all points...(Tape IO, FX.....) and after booting the faders didn't work anymore.

So maybe it could be some problem with the power supply or its connectors.

If you want some further info on this send me a PM....I'm from Germany too.


Btw Is there some way to fix this "power supply molex type plug problem"? I already thought about soldering the lines directly to the connector pins :-P

Cheers
Tom

Re: my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 3:42 pm
by Crash
While I lived in Germany for 4 years, I think I would hit up some of the guys still there to help you out.

Some things I would verify are that you have a clock card installed in the console. If you have a flashing "?" "*" in the right hand corner of the vacuum display on the console, you have a clocking issue.

The flashing green LED on the play button means that you don't have MMC established. I am not sure what you are recording too but make sure you have your midi cables and settings are right to get MMC working.

Getting the bottom off the console is not difficult and it may be worth looking in there to see if a riboin cable or two have become dislodged. This may explaing your lack of fader and v-pot control.

Re: my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 8:09 pm
by Mikel30
hello,

so many thanks to all off you for your fast help and a speziell thanks to manfred thanks thanks thanks to show me a eventuell way to make this problem not longer my problem !!

thanks and greets

Maik

Re: my faders and potis on the mackie d8b dont work?

PostPosted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:26 am
by Crash
So you are good to go now?