The Maplin PAM-1240 vintage 12 channel audio mixer.
This is another undocumented rarity. I'm not sure of its age, but I bought it second hand in 1997, from the fellow in Music City, Southampton. On the circuit diagram in the manual it says 30/11/1988. It's worth mentioning that it's an extremely well built, solid steel beast that is rediculously reliable. The sliders and knobs feel tight and smooth and has a clean, noise and hum free output, perfect! The only modification I made was to remove the beastly fixed mains cable and fit an IEC socket with a removable mains lead.
The Quasimidi sticker appeared in 1997 and covers the Maplin PAM 1240 painted logo which I thought was uncool at the time. PAM is an acronym of Professional Audio Mixer, not the fabulous female name.
The Quasimidi sticker appeared in 1997 and covers the Maplin PAM 1240 painted logo which I thought was uncool at the time. PAM is an acronym of Professional Audio Mixer, not the fabulous female name.
Channels 1 to 10 are either mono 1/4" jack inputs, switchable between mic and line, or balanced XLR inputs. each channel has a panpot control to turn the mono input into pseudo stereo, or you can for example put left into CH1 and right into CH2, tweak the panpots and proper stereo.
Channels 11 and 12 are stereo channels, controlled by double gang pots.
There's also DJ mic XLR input.
The incongruity here is that because it states that it's a professional audio mixer with graphic equaliser, it's probably not used by professionals, but it does have an excellent 7 band graphic equaliser, but we don't need to have it written on the case!
From the top downwards each channel has a line / mic selector switch, gain control, treble, bass, panpot, effect (controls the channel level sent to an external effect unit), Cue (sends the unequalised channel to the monitor section, a peak level led indicator and a level slider.
It has functions that allows the user to listen different parts of the mixer with headphones by various cue and monitor switches, I stick to just mixing a few keyboards together.
I would recommend this retro mixer as it is easy to use, excellent signal to noise ratio, easily repairable and it's certainly not miniaturised, measuring 742mm x 416mm x 140mm and about 12Kg.
Channels 11 and 12 are stereo channels, controlled by double gang pots.
There's also DJ mic XLR input.
The incongruity here is that because it states that it's a professional audio mixer with graphic equaliser, it's probably not used by professionals, but it does have an excellent 7 band graphic equaliser, but we don't need to have it written on the case!
From the top downwards each channel has a line / mic selector switch, gain control, treble, bass, panpot, effect (controls the channel level sent to an external effect unit), Cue (sends the unequalised channel to the monitor section, a peak level led indicator and a level slider.
It has functions that allows the user to listen different parts of the mixer with headphones by various cue and monitor switches, I stick to just mixing a few keyboards together.
I would recommend this retro mixer as it is easy to use, excellent signal to noise ratio, easily repairable and it's certainly not miniaturised, measuring 742mm x 416mm x 140mm and about 12Kg.