Amazing, this stereo mixer is still working after 31 years.
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@streetlife2011 ай бұрын
My first was the one with no crossfader. Was so happy when I got this one…..still have it
@davidevans604511 ай бұрын
i still have that mixer in my cupboard bought it new cant say ive used it for 30yrs but I did use it
@dustinmichael43182 жыл бұрын
This RadioShack Realistic mixing console was one of the first mixers that I used when I started DJing in high school in 1989. I just bought one today on FB marketplace for twenty bucks to use to play around with, as a backup mixer in my home studio, and as a nostalgic conversation piece. I loved the layout and styling and it was a solid mixer. I'd probably still have mine, but I lost my original gear in a tornado - and I got sucked into replacing it with a 19" rack mountable mixer with a few more bells and whistles.
@thomaseyancey280 Жыл бұрын
This is the first Radio Shack realistic mixer that help me learn how to hot mix in the summer of 1983 this is one of the best mixes that I had ever came across to start learning how to mix and scratch
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS7772 жыл бұрын
Back in 1990 - I took the original crossfader knob and crazy glued it onto one of the phono/aux switches to make transforming easier with this unit and replaced the knob from the far right mic fader.
@WarPhotographer19742 жыл бұрын
My dad ran an FM station with one of those back in 1990-1991
@osopolarmovies2 жыл бұрын
I worked a summer in the final fixing rooms for the Swedish Radio Corporation. The quality on the professional mixing tables were the same am on my "home mixing console". Turntables and tape recorders at that time.
@mihaipopa94143 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, thanks!
@osopolarmovies11 ай бұрын
I gave mySTEREO MIXING CONSOLE to a friend who has a turntable. New amplifiers seldom have inputs for turntables.
@adamvillinbonneville4839 Жыл бұрын
Recorded so many songs and skits with this mixer
@Greg2tube12 жыл бұрын
Just scored a brand new one on ebay! Thanks your video sold me.
@osopolarmovies2 жыл бұрын
Congratulation! 100% quality!
@garyc61834 жыл бұрын
I have one of these also. Still working as well. I have a Realistic Lab-260 turntable plugged into mine and a cassette deck too. I'm able to listen to old cassettes and albums through my computer as well as digitizing my old stuff.
@bluekillion44874 жыл бұрын
I also used to have one, together with 2 Realistic turntables & 3 Realistic cassette decks running through a Realistic tape control centre. I had my very own bedroom radio studio that my friends & I would present shows from. The happy childhood of a radio nerd !
@QR_Code2 жыл бұрын
man, this brings back memories
@Dexton07423 жыл бұрын
Can't believe I've seen this. My first mixer bought in 1988 from Cloud Electronics (Sheffield UK). So cool to see one again (don't recall what happened to mine)
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS7772 жыл бұрын
I bought mine in 1990. They are built very well. Classy for Realistic to offer a mixer with a crossfader and extra channels at affordable price in the late 80s... made many great mix tapes with this.. but I usually gigged with a Numark console and then Rane.
@joelgonsalves4943 Жыл бұрын
Thank You Sir
@BobscratchTurntablist Жыл бұрын
my first crossfader.
@DVSnark2 жыл бұрын
Just snagged one at the thrift shop, replaced an alesis sub mixer for my keyboards. Half of them are RCA output so it worked well. Have a synth with left and right 1/4” out though and hooking it into one of the mic inputs it is very very loud. I barely nudge it up when using it, any further and it maxes the vu. But overall the mixer works great and I didn’t hear any noise at all, it’s a nice upgrade from the alesis which was a bit noisy.
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS7772 жыл бұрын
sounds about right.
@miguelsalami4 жыл бұрын
Very nice illustration of the sound mixer I liked the original Radio Shack adds you posted. I have the model below this one 23-1101A 👍👍💛
@TangoCharlieAlpha2 жыл бұрын
I just bought the 4-channel mixer today at the local thrift store, which includes a wireless microphone unit and 2 mics for $10. No clue what I will even use it for. Lol.
@miguelsalami2 жыл бұрын
@@TangoCharlieAlpha build a home studio it's fun!
@osopolarmovies3 жыл бұрын
With a soldering iron one can do anything
@swunkgames2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video it is super informative. do you know if this mixer will work with condenser microphones that require phantom power? I dont see a button for it and have tried researching a bit online but found nothing. I have an AT4041 that I would want to run through this to record but dont know if it will work.
@osopolarmovies2 жыл бұрын
If you buy a separate Phantom Power Supply you can use your AT4041. 35 years ago only professional mixer had phantom power. However this mixer is extremely good.
@kenwebster50532 жыл бұрын
Don't you mean that you had to buy a transformer to bring the supply voltage down to 120V? I have a similar though simpler and possible earlier version of this. These vintage Realistic mixers certainly got the job done and if maintained well, can do a surprisingly clean job. I don't think they support balanced connections, not even for microphones, just grounding out the (-)inverted phase. I thought at the time, CERamic connection was a bit odd, for the 80s as that is more a 60s thing with inferior frequency range, by the 80s MM/MC were well established in the HiFi market with MC offering the highest fidelity, no enthusiast would bother with CER. I thought it odd that they didn't include a MC preamp in these, but I supposed it was aimed at a DJ market, so I guess it does makes sense to support the older CER tech over high end MC for that application.👍
@the7thstranger9394 жыл бұрын
That little acoustic guitar sample is really catchy. Is that song available anywhere?
@osopolarmovies4 жыл бұрын
The7thStranger I have this guitar recording on a cassette. However there is a nice recording I did in 1991, now released on KZbin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmHKoGOLps6Gmtk
@jeanfrancoisgagne98694 жыл бұрын
mon nencien mixer de radio shack de beaux souvenir de mixage de mon studio vgm fm que jutilisais pour mixer et javais un micro mono aussie wow mais en 1990 a 2000 que javais cette promiere cosole aujourduis cest le nextech stereo mixer wow
@osopolarmovies4 жыл бұрын
J'ai donné ma REALISTIC à un ami qui l'utilise comme amplificateur de gramophone (RIAA).
@muskymcg4 жыл бұрын
Hi great video.. How do you stop.it cracking?... I tried to use this scratching..used the line in switch to Transformer scratch :)
@ramonknight91523 жыл бұрын
Clean all the faders and switches with contact cleaner then oil the faders
@Dexton07423 жыл бұрын
Haha, exact same here
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS7772 жыл бұрын
de-oxit or various other methods.
@mixit31328 күн бұрын
What year was this mixer actually released?
@shotgun36282 жыл бұрын
I own this same console. but I cant seem to get anything to come out of the "tape out" ports. I'm not sure if I'm misunderstanding how to use them or if they're broken edit: i can only get sound to come out when nothing is connected to "main out"
@osopolarmovies2 жыл бұрын
Check the MAIN OUT Jacks
@gammakeraulophon3 жыл бұрын
Hi.. longtime posted I know.. but thanks for the vid.. and what are the microphones? Thanks!
@osopolarmovies3 жыл бұрын
The two Nakamichi CM-300 microphones you can see on my video.
@gammakeraulophon3 жыл бұрын
@@osopolarmovies Ah OK.. much thanks.. they are electret codenser.. but run off battery.. I came across talk in a thread about these a few years back.. someone who considered these the very best microphones for recording bright metallic and brittle sources such as gongs chimes and gamelans etc.. I had made a mental note then to trace some down.. but all evaporated out of mind. Thanks the reminder! 😊
@osopolarmovies3 жыл бұрын
@@gammakeraulophon I had a Sony WM-D6C cassette recorder (a bargain from Hong Kong) and a home made microphone amplifier without any audible noice. With this recorder and the microphones I made at least 50 musical live recordings. This is real Hi-Fi!
@gammakeraulophon3 жыл бұрын
@@osopolarmovies Ok.. that's interesting.. can the Nakamichis run from the Sony plug in mic power? Ah.. ok.. sorry.. just realised you said you had an external preamp.. so you would have been going into the Sony Line In. I got very into David Lewiston's early field recordings of Indonesian Gamelan some while back.. very simple portable tape and mics setup. His recordings are not perfect.. they do have distortion.. especially the loud sections in the low end of frequency spectrum.. But I think they sound great.. the lo-fi adds something. Anyways.. much thanks the info..
@mraskent2 жыл бұрын
@@osopolarmovies why use home made microphone amplifier, cant you connect the mike directly to the mixers mike input?
@viaoutdoors Жыл бұрын
Do the two meters light up?
@osopolarmovies Жыл бұрын
Yes
@vikler_994 жыл бұрын
I'm using it for band praktice in garage , i connect One Mic for vocals and bass guitar in input. Output is Amplifire for cd player wich is connected to guitar speakers. and it is working very good, i lik it. Only problem is that I do not have manual. Can you send me manual pdf if is it available? thanx
@osopolarmovies4 жыл бұрын
I can´t find it. However the manual is available in the end of this video. I tried to make a "live manual".
@vikler_994 жыл бұрын
@@osopolarmovies i found it. thanx
@mhillaxeman5 жыл бұрын
So this has a phono preamp...magnetic and ceramic?
@osopolarmovies5 жыл бұрын
Mark Hill Any microphone. Some microphones need Fantom feed.
@expresionlibremexico4 жыл бұрын
yes
@SPINNINGMYWHEELS7772 жыл бұрын
magnetic
@koolbeanz79024 жыл бұрын
I'm having trouble connecting it to speaker I can't hear anything
@bakerbakerbaker3054 жыл бұрын
@@bjornwahlsten9104 ):
@goran22685 жыл бұрын
Du låter svensk. Har jag rätt? Hur som helst, jag köpte precis en sådan här grunka så uppskattar din demonstration, tack.
@osopolarmovies5 жыл бұрын
Nästan rätt, vi flyttade till Spanien och bytte nantionalitet. Jag satt en sommar i programkontrollerna för SR så självklart ville jag efter det ha en egen mixer.
@lowercentenary2 жыл бұрын
How can this be used with for example a guitar?
@osopolarmovies2 жыл бұрын
connect background music in one input and the guitar in another, the mix
@lowercentenary2 жыл бұрын
Ah I see! Thank you so much for the quick reply.
@josedealva42054 жыл бұрын
I feel that a synth woould blow this thing out. but it seems good enough for line levels... no color for you. colour does not exist.
@1962speiche3 жыл бұрын
Realistic=TANDY
@temocgerman81273 жыл бұрын
grounded why? has this question been asked before? why's the record player gotta be grounded?
@osopolarmovies3 жыл бұрын
The signal from the pick-up is extremely small and is competing with other noice in the air. The inner wires actually work like antennas. With the ground connected the inner cable is protected from the outside noice - Faraday’s cage. The best you can do is to connect/disconnect the ground and listen to the difference.
@temocgerman81273 жыл бұрын
@@osopolarmovies very very interesting; thank you. i learned more from this than i intended to, which is more than i get from any youtube search experience. really, THANKS.
@travisguide4516 Жыл бұрын
That music coming thru is quite dated actually much older than the unit itself great video otherwise
@osopolarmovies Жыл бұрын
Yes, I made a some live recordnigs in 1983. Listen from 1:56! You can see one of the cassettes here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ-zdqunmtqNrtk