May 26, 2003 04:25 pm use contact cleaner. works for beer + mixer combinations, as a friend of mine can attest.
WingedWolf Productions down for the count
Posted on May 26, 2003 03:52 pm
wingdwolf
Member Since: Nov 24, 2002
A phantom Coca-Cola was mysteriously spilled on my Fostex by what must have been a ghost since no one in the house will admit to it. The result is, my recording studio is out of business. All of my recordings are about useless too because my computer can't read the zip disks created by the fostex. Basically all the fostex can be used for now is a possible mixer.So once I have the money for a dedicated PC, I can be dragged kicking and screaming into the present world of PC recording.
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May 26, 2003 04:25 pm use contact cleaner. works for beer + mixer combinations, as a friend of mine can attest.
May 26, 2003 04:52 pm wingdwolf, if all else fails, you can always locate someone else with the same Fostex and a PC who you could commission to rip all of your tracks to wav files and burn them to CD. At least then you'd still have your projects up until now.
May 26, 2003 05:03 pm Jamie, The fostex uses a proprietary language that can only be read by fostex. I found someone with an FD8 who'll can convert everything I have for a small fee so I'll be able to use the tracks when i make the move to PC.
MinkusMaz, It's not so much the outside that's the problem, but the fact that nothing showa on the screen but a bunch of gibbberish.Also it won't record now. I may just see if I can grab another Fostex for cheap. Heck, they're almost totally obsolete now.
May 26, 2003 05:06 pm actually, i was talking about the inside too. doesn't help if LCD displays are bunking out on you though.
May 26, 2003 05:09 pm sugar water is an excellent conductor of electricity.
there's a chance that, unless you've fried an IC or a resistor somewhere, you *may* be able to open the thing up, unplugged of course, and clean up the sugary mess, and it may just magically start working again. I had an ex-gf that managed to spill pepsi in my computer keyboard twice and i was able to get it to stop constantly spewing the same letters with some warm water and a towel.
i would think opening the Fostex up will void the warrenty.. but then again i would imagine so does feeding it caffeinated beverages.
good luck
May 26, 2003 05:14 pm Well what the heck....I'll open the thing up and see what happens.It's not likes it's working now,right? Anyway it'll give me something to do since I can't record...Thanks guys!!
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