just got the last of the stuff packed for monday, and pics taken for the next batch of ebay stuff.
tomorrow i'll slap her together and get some voltages. all will be revealed.

yeah, in some cases, they have multiple wires connecting. it makes it even weirder!
what i'll do is start with preamp card one, and trace where the wires go to, and try and work my way thru the whole mess. and get voltages after... better to trace stuff before i re-assemble it.
it LOOKS worse than it probably is cuz its got all the p2p stuff all over... we'll probably end up with enough info some crazy sucker could clone it if they
were stupid enough like me wanted to.

i'll also do my best to get the correct values on all the resistors etc on the mixer.
for shits n giggles i may pull the q and try something else with it... i got one of them little chinese tester things, works great for pinouts n gain. if its working, i'll put it back, but if not... that will be our problem, and to me, the most likely candidate as everything else appears to be working. i doubt the resistors or caps have died.
so the 39 and 33k resistors in parallel should be, like, 17.875... call it 18k.. the 22k on the back is in parallel with the 100k, so it works out to 18032.xxx k... so we could call that 18k too, right?
why wouldn't they just use like, a 22k resistor and be done with it? should be close enough i'd imagine.
i definitely wanna compare it with and without that solder blob, too,,, and with one end of both those resistors lifted to see what it does.
right now i'm leaning towards a shorted transistor, thats not actually operating but still passing signal. i had a blown kustom like that years ago i used as a preamp so i could get reverb outta my marshall jcm800 combo, the power amp was blown, but you could still pass signal thru it.
i'm wondering if them resistors are whats letting the signal bleed thru the whole mess... i bet they fudged it when built, and them resistors are a dodge... or they messed up the design... would seem to me, summing two different preamps together passively would be problematic. maybe the q on the mixer is a gain stage for the mixed channels, or perhaps a buffer to keep the 1 and 2 channels isolated?
i think i picked up a lousy week to give up caffiene... and sugar... and alcohol <<especially alcohol>> and gluten.
that said, i've lost 20 lbs in the last week. so its probably a good thing, but i got the brain fog setting in from no carbs, lol
the damn infection thing isn't helping either. whomever invented this shit should be flogged!!!
left hand ring finger in the first knuckle is where its worst. holy shit. can barely bend it. good thing i'm off til thursday!!
with luck it will be better and i'll dodge a week or two of intravenous antibiotics, cuz man, hospitals scare the piss outta me.
last place ya wanna be if you're sick!!!
anyways, thats it for tonite. thanks for everything rob!!
