*** eBay'd *** Fender SRM8302 Powered Mixer £50 Harrow

[Happy Jack]

 

You'll have seen these, or clones thereof, in rehearsal rooms and home studios the length & breadth of the country. You may even have seen one in the wild at a pub/club gig.

 

 

Jolly good devices, built like a tank and a real Swiss Army knife of a unit, but they tend to have had hard lives and usually have knobs and/or functions that may still be knobs ... only they don't function. 🙄

 

 

That's why this one is so silly cheap. I'm not listing it as 'spares or repairs' because most of it works just fine, but there are enough bits that aren't fine that I have better solutions available for my rehearsal space at home.

 

FULL DISCLOSURE: 
1. The RCA Phono inputs have a horrible buzz through them. I just use two of the eight channels instead; problem solved.

2. The Master Volume has a horrible buzz when set to low volumes. The buzz disappears at about the 12 o'clock mark so I set the individual channel levels low instead.

3. One of the two speaker output control switches only works intermittently. I either use the unit in mono or leave the switches alone.

 

 

Would I gig with it? Yes, if I had to ... I've used worse at gigs. As I say, the unit works once you know your way around it. But now I need it shifted so I'll start it here for a week just to see if there's any Basschat interest before reverting to eBay.

 

 

Like all these old-skool mixer amps it's a heavy lump. It's still a one-hand lift but you'd not be wanting to stroll across a supermarket carpark carrying it if you could avoid it.

 

I have zero interest in trying to package & despatch this, so it's collection only either from Harrow HA1 or from one of my gigs - see links in my sig.

 

Edited October 22, 2023 by Happy Jack