Topic: OLD ass Realistic 4 channel mixer?

[peterbilt]

About two years ago, a buddy of mine gave me this old Realistic, four channel mixer, and I have never used it. I simply never had a need for it, but now, after picking up a set of 3 CM300's I am in the possible need to run a mixer. I know that there is a multi channel mixer that was made by Nakamichi, but I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on using this.

It's kinda neat in that it runs on a 9 volt battery (I have no idea how long a battery would last), it's pretty damn small ( 9"x4.5"x2.5") has 1/4' and RCA ins, and 2 1/4" out's.

The big thing I'm curious about is the ground connection
There's a little screw on the rear panel, but I have NO idea how I would ground this properly in the field?
I'm sure that I wouldn't want to run the Nak's into it without a ground, so please school me in some grounding principles and suggestion.

[hexyjones]

JUNK - Pitch it...

[peterbilt]

JUNK - Pitch it...

C'mon, I at least want to set it up correctly and TRY it.
can't take word of mouth all the time.

[hexyjones]

The ground is probably useless for your application...but you could pound a 6 foot cooper pole into the ground and attach a wire to it. Or - You could attach it to the ground on a 3 prong adapter - but really - a lot of AC circuts just arent grounded...

Those old Realistic Mixers - I used one on the 89 summer Dead Tour - are very noisy...no indication of signal strength...

And - I would be very suspect of how the signals will be summed...

And - just for the record - 3 mic setups - really sound bad...IMO (M/S excluded)

[Cooker]

the ground connection is there to ground turntables to, not unlike the ground connection on the back of your receiver.

i used to have a Realistic mixer almost like that, except it had cross-faders, six channels (2 dedicated mic channels, 4 line channels), and no 9V and i used it for djing for 10+ years. very noisy indeed.