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marsmedia

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  • Birthday 09/01/1952

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    Tulsa/OK

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    Synthesizers, guitars, recording

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    Artist for hire

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  1. I purchased a Kelsey 12-channel ProClub+3 brand new, mail odered, $650, from Manny's, circa 1982, while attending the university of oklahoma. I was amazed by the compactness, the clean output, and although the mixer was used primarily for recording music and sound for video sound editing, it served double duty in sound reinforcement. When I moved to Monterey/CA in '85, the mixer went along, and no one out west had seen a kelsey mixer! I did a fair amount of live sound mixing and acquired a 100 ft snake for ease of operation. After a few years, I had to store a lot of my gear, and when I took it all out of storage a few years later, the Kelsey's pots were all noisy. After removing the mixer from the road case and seeing that the pots were all closed back design, I became concerned until I learned how to properly clean them: simply rotate each one fully, 100 times! Sounds tedious, but that really works! While in Monterey, I purchased a used 16-channel ProClub+3 which is considerably larger than my trusty old 12 chan! The 16-chan board offered more inserts, solo features and overall, more bells and whistles, and the welcome feature of a headphone jack! (Never understood why my 12-chan lacked a headphone jack!) So, besides the lack of a headphone jack, the only other issue I have with the 12-chan mixer is that the 1/4" jacks are plastic! Other than that, my 2 kelsey boards are real workhorses!
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