Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
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By 16squarez Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:43 pm
Man my warrenty is up and my right channel went out.(stereo & headphones).
I have a stereo sample and when i hit the pad it only plays
thru the left channel i can sometimes hear the right channel but its
very faint and distorted.
So i went into the mixer and panned to the left and to the right and left was fine but when panned to right it was really low and distorted.
then i swapped cable same thing.i then took my headphones and plugged into the left/right channel of main outs and the same thing.
I was thinking that i can just take it apart and check maybe a solder connection but if it is effecting both the stereo outs and headphones im thinking it would be in the circuit board?
i know its not the OS cause i did just swap to the paid jj'os.swapped back to 1.22 just to see. cheked all the settings in mpc everything set to stereo.
Damn this sucks anyway has anyone had to send there mpc out for repair if so where did you send it or should i just try akai?
Thanks-J.

By barznbeats Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:27 pm
Good question, my outs are starting to go also...

Anyone know where/if I can order some new outs?


i'll solder the damn thing myself.
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By 16squarez Wed Mar 21, 2007 4:33 am
basically i found out that the main outs and the headphone outs are on the same bus so if your having probs with both outs then the problem is most likley going to be located on the circuit board and not the actuall outs themselves i took my mpc completely apart today and found this out.
i tested all the individual outs and they seem to pass signal fine so i wrapped it all up and shipped it to VST,cause 2 hours later i was just going crazy on the board i tried to find the scematics for the board online, but couldn't, lol i called vst to see if they would even email me them (but they were like hell nah) So i messed with my multi meter following the signal but i really didn't know what i was really doing.
They said since its already opened up i should save like a 1/2 hour in labor,so i guess i'll have to wait till they give me a call or wait till usps calls and says in was lost in transit.
Peace!

By barznbeats Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:24 am
Funny, I tried to find schematics also! lol

I haven't checked for continuity yet though.
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By jahrome Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:59 am
I am sorry to report....but one channel of my stereo outs is going bad. Funny thing is that I never take my MPC out the studio and it stays connected to my mixer. It seems overnight, one of the channels starting going bad. RIght now, I just use the SPDIF out and the 8 analog outs. I guess I will send it to be repaired during a time that I won't need it much.