as expected, the knobs are pretty dusty. however, what I find weird is that about half of it is too caked on for compressed air, but half got blown right away. that, and the EQ knobs are considerably dustier than anything else, even the gain knobs that are above them (when mounted in a rack)

if I manually selective copy the watermark over from another image, that works fine. it's only styles that has a problem

take all the time you need mate

0-100 acceleration? 5 minutes. why would you need anything better? city traffic is limited to a maximum of 50kmh anyway and if you go on the highway it's not like acceleration really matters lol

"comes with subwoofer preinstalled" no fuck that every sound system i always see is just bass and nothing else rip that shit out I'll bring a bluetooth speaker with me that gives an infinitely better sound and takes up a quarter of the space

rip out the rear seats I ain't got no passengers in fact rip out the passenger seat too I want this fucking thing to carry the planet Mercury inside it and still have plenty of space for the driver. weight reduction too so it uses less fuel. perfection

i want a pre-90s hatchback. that's it, that's my dream car. don't care about make, don't care about model. just the boxiest hatchback you've got. that's it, that's my dream car

yes, more tummy, However, consider: bigger thighs too

there's also another issue with the venice knobs: when the fader is maxed out, it'll make it annoying to turn the pan knob. I guess I'll have to get some generic ones that *kind of* fit the look. I'll include the original knobs in the package so it's up to the buyer if they want to use them instead

sadly, it's missing two knobs. I checked all over the internet (ebay and aliexpress) and I couldn't find anywhere where I could buy these exact knobs. it's a 4mm shaft so I tried the ones from the Midas Venice 320 to see if I could replace them with those, but they don't really fit in with the look

now that the Samson is out of the way, I can move on to the main thing I went to Helsinki for: the Yamaha MV1602 rack mountable mixer. it powers on and outputs sound, so that's great! of course, all the pots crackle. no surprise there

bruh nobody cares if there's skin in it lol you're way overthinking this again

the mixer has now been listed for sale on eBay and Reverb for 110€! Untested ones go for around 50€ and a good condition one sold on ebay for 100€, so I think 110€ for a completely refurbished one is perfectly reasonable

went through and tested every single input, output, knob, switch etc. and they all work perfectly now. a couple of knobs did crackle a bit but that was fixed by just rotating the knob over the affected area repeatedly. it's ready to be sold on

god damn look at this before/after

the 1/4" connector nuts were attached so tightly from the factory that the washers actually damaged the underlying paint. oh well, thankfully that's gonna be masked by the very same washer going back on it

I've just finished spraying contact cleaner into all the pots and assembled it to the point where it's nice to test and I know what the knobs do, but that'll have to wait until tomorrow. not only because I'm eepy but also because I want to make sure the contact cleaner has evaporated

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