Questions

Cleaning Makie and other Mixers in High Humidity/Salt environment?

Q: (18404)

We have a Mackie powered mixers that is several years old. I play music on deck and Tiki bars on the Gulf of Mexico. Several of the channels on the mixer started underperforming and then stopped working. You were recommended to me by a sound tech. I am wondering, what is the best product to use for XLR inputs that may have been affected by the salt air?

Volume Pots – Which DeoxIT® product do I use?

Q: (18388)

I need to know which product which would be the best to clean volume pots on musical equipment. When I rotate the pot, it makes a static/crackling noise.

Best product to use for Carbon Pots and also Carbon Pots with Metal Parts?.

Q: (18386)

I know DeoxIT® D-Series and DeoxIT® Gold are good to for cleaning anything with metal to metal contacts – buy the way, they are the best products, hands down! But what do I use to clean the potentiometers that are carbon? Also, many pots have both carbon and metal parts, what should I then use?

Do you have a flexible spray extension tube that stays bent?

Q: (18383)

Do you have a flexible extension tube that stays bent when you form it? The straight only straw sometimes has to be bent in such a way that it takes two hands to get it where it has to go and you can’t get to the spray button.

Roland switches – Tactile button switches stuck!

Q: (18316)

I have a Roland TR-909 and the tactile button switches are stuck. I used the DeoxIT® cleaner and it worked.  What do I need to lubricate them?