slightly OT : mixing board

[DCMagnuson at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/28/00 6:37:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, matti at devo.com 
writes:

> I'm playing audio from my PC to my WS-X1 mixer, then to the speakers, and 
>  everything's working fine. Then the cat goes and plays with the cables, 
and 
>  suddenly the output from the mixer to the speakers dissappears. If I turn 
> the 
>  gain on the mixer all the way up, I hear a little bit of quite distorted 
> audio. 
>  The problem is definitely something wrong in the mixer, nothing like 
turning 
> the 
>  volume on the speakers up.....
>  
>  Can anyone offer any suggestions before I start poking around inside of 
>  expensive equipment?
>  

My first guesses would be:

1.  A bad cable
2. A broken jack

Try swapping cables around first, this is most likely the cause

Dave Magnuson