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Studiomaster Mixdown Classic8 24 Ch 8 Live or Multitrack Console Mixer - $400 (Springfield VA)
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This has been sealed in plastic and stored for many years. It has been tested and it is in great working condition.
It comes with power supply and meter Bridge with meters for every input and output channel. The mixing control surface also has metering.
get info on line
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1358904/Studiomaster-Mixdown.html
I have user and service manuals. This is an easy to service console and can be kept in service for a very long time.
I install and service professional audio and video equipment and have sold on Craigslist many good used equipment from customers that have upgraded or changed systems. Buy here and save vs ebay!!
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here is some brief info from SOS
Studiomaster's new desk joins the long list of other contenders in the crowded 8-buss mixer market. Unlike many of its competitors, however, the Classic 8 is a split console, and includes MIDI muting and a meter bridge as standard. Is this enough to encourage musicians to settle for Studiomaster? PAUL WHITE finds out.Studiomaster are one of the longest established UK mixer manufacturers, and indeed, they're one of the few not bought out by an overseas parent company.
The Mixdown Classic 8 is an 8-buss recording mixer available in 16, 24 and 32-channel versions, with the benefit of MIDI muting as standard -- providing click-free muting under the control of any MIDI sequencer (see the 'Mute Witness' box for more). Also standard is the full-width meter bridge and a rackmount power supply. Direct outputs on every channel mean the console isn't restricted to 8-track recording, and the 3-band EQ features sweep control on both mid and lower sections -- which makes it very flexible.
THE CLASSIC 8 ; MIDI
As already mentioned, the Classic 8 features MIDI muting as standard. The first thing to do is set up the MIDI channel for communications, using a rotary switch adjacent to the MIDI In, Out and Thru sockets on the rear panel. Once the system is switched on via the MIDI switch on the front panel, mute information is sent as Note Off and Note On data on MIDI notes 1 to 32 for the channels, and 101 and 102 for Aux 1 and 2. Note On equals Mute On. Unlike some systems, which use non-latching buttons for the channel On switches, the Mixdown Classic 8 has normal latching buttons. These must be in the channel On position before mute data can be played back into the console -- green status LEDs show the mechanical status of the switch. A red LED shows whether or not the channel is muted, so when both LEDs are on, you know the channel is being muted via MIDI.
Some older sequencers don't handle very long Note On events very happily (you have to feed them an extra one occasionally just to stop them timing out), but most current sequencers should be fine, and the great advantage of such a simple system is that it's very easy to edit the mute data in your sequencer. You can either set up the mutes as snapshots, then dump them to the sequencer one at a time using the Dump button, or you can run the mix in real time and record note data straight into the sequencer by pressing the console's mute buttons. By working on a few mutes at a time and doing each pass on a separate sequencer track, editing is simpler -- and you can always merge the data to a single track when you're happy with it.
If you start a mix mid-song, there's a good chance that some of the mute data will be wrong, because the sequencer won't know what mutes were last set, and it will stay wrong until the relevant mutes are next updated. To get around this, Studiomaster have used the same system adopted for their P7, where mute data is also sent out as bursts of MIDI controller information every second or so. When editing mute data in the sequencer, the controller data must be discarded, otherwise you'll have two conflicting sets of mute instructions. New mute controller data is output from the mixer's MIDI Out when you next play the sequence data back into the console. For those without a sequencer, it is possible to set up one mute snapshot and switch it on or off using the MCM On button.