How to get the knobs off the mixer to replace the x fade ect

Right folks, here's a quick response and to this particular person, to anyone else who's got the same problem. It's Gerald2000GLE. What he said, he's got a mixer and he's got a crossfader or there's one of the sliders, one of the actual knobs on the top that he needs to take off to enable him to get the top plate of the mixer off to change. The crossfade. A lot of crossfades we've got now, you can take the whole thing off, which is quite handy. But some of the old mixers and even some modern day mixers, you've got to take the actual knob off first before you can take the plate off. Right, now then. What you need, very quickly, if you see there you need a piece of string or some flat ribbon, OK? Then what you do is you make a knot in it so it's a loop. Then what you have to do, if you can see that picture, you basically double loop it. Now the idea here is you have your finger underneath here

One side of the loop under one side of the dial, and then the other one under the other side. This is the bit. This is, if you imagine, the slider. Now then, this is the funny bit. I'm afraid I have searched the house. This house is full of everything. But for the life of me, I could not find anything appropriate. So I'm afraid I've got a pair of my wife's knickers. Don't tell her. It's alright. I did take them off earlier on. Right, okay. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to show you. Right, so we'll pan the camera down here, and I'll give you an idea. There you go. Now this is quite funny and I want to say it may take a bit of time. These knickers are very slippery. So what I'll do, put that there and hopefully you'll see exactly what I'm doing. Right now then, if you can imagine, this is quite funny actually, bizarre. But what you do is you get one under one side and one under the other side. So what you're doing is you're actually having Thank you for watching.

This transcript was produced automatically from the audio of the video and may contain mistakes.