After wanting to get into mixing for a while a friend bought a Numark Omni Control, and after a look at it I decided it was the perfect purchase.
Just getting the hang of mixing, and Traktor Pro finally configured properly, disaster has struck and last night knocked a pretty large glass of water over the controller.
I reacted instantly and quickly dried the exterior and done my best with a hairdryer to dry it out, but it’s now the morning and it’s fucked.
When I boot Traktor everything appears okay, until you load up a couple of tracks and move the jog wheels and the tracks start moving forwards and backwards randomly. One of the filter dials was randomly turning side to side and other lights were turning themselves on and off, so generally not looking good.
I’m pretty much broke which doesn’t help the situation but what would be the best course of action as to getting it repaired?
Anyone have any experience with this sort of stuff and know if a repair is first of all possible, roughly how much it would cost and whether it would be best to contact Numark or go through and independent repairs place.
I’ve already rang Numark and started the repairs process, but am just hoping that it’ll magically start working again over the next couple of days, as I’ve got just about no money for a repair and fear that the cost for repair (if it IS properly broken) will end up being close to the cost of a replacement.
If you can.. undo the backplates and expose the circut boards .. its not gonna be covered under warranty anyhoo so nothing to lose here.
leave in a the hot closet for a day, or somewhere warm.
Test it
If that doesn’t work there might be some residue or corrosion on the board
Strip the unit to the board
Clean around the board with a small soft makeup brush dipped in isopropyl (you’ll get it in a pharmacy).
Leave to dry out for a few hours.
Test again
Anything beyond that probably means your pots might be damaged .. sounds like some liquid is just shorting them at the moment though and guess the top option will work.
True, but to work the best you probably need to at least take it partially apart and get hot air inside it. Turning it on may have fried some circuits though if there was still water trapped inside. First thing to do to anyone reading this is to unplug everything and DON’T turn it back on until your’e absolutely certain all of the water is gone.
the liquid that was spilled on it was from the inside of a bong, so wasn’t exactly the cleanest of water, but it wasn’t anything fizzy or anything like that.
when i tried immediately after and got the results i posted, then the same results the morning after i had pretty much lost hope of it starting working again, but have a little more faith now. i’ll leave it somewhere warm for another night and fingers crossed etc.
does anyone have any experience returning items like this to numark? i’m guessing they’re likely to take my eyes out on any sort of repair?
thanks so much for the advice i honestly thought it was a gonner.
what i ended up doing..
when it first happened i dried the exterior with towel and used a hairdryer for a few minutes but stopped as i wasn’t sure it was helping. plugged in to laptop stupidly out of curiosity to find traktor not working as normal.
tried again in morning hoping it’d dried out to find the same result and then sought advice here. after reading some replies i stuck the unit as close as possible to a radiator, which gave it a good amount of heat. later i removed the back panel and gave it all a good go-over with a hairdryer, there were a couple of tiny droplets of water that i dabbed away by hand. after giving it a prety thorough hairdrying i then stuck it about 1" away from a radiator overnight.
quick inspection in the morning, then plugged it in and it seems to be working fine. what a relief, you have no idea! a combination of everyones advices saved the day in the end. i thought i was knackered after all of the advice started with DO NOT PLUG IN OR TURN ON, and i’d already done this 2-3 times haha, but anyway all sorted i think.
crossfader is still sticking when trying to mix. gonna take the back off again and leave for another 24 hours. hopefully it will dry out as the jog wheels etc have
