Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Technology - don't talk to me about technology. As I am recording songs onto computer I invested in a rather expensive vintage analogue mixing desk for my recording studio. The idea is that you run everything through the desk on the way into the computer so that the sound gets "warmed up" and doesn't sound too brittle and clean. I have to say that it works - I have been really pleased with the sound I get. The only trouble is that, because the desk is teens of years old, it goes wrong too often. My earliest recordings were compromised by some of the channels leaking their sound onto others - a feature that the technical expert would later describe as a "design fault". I did have to ask him how a mixing desk that cost £8,000 when new in the 1990's could possibly have a design fault. Surely for that amount of money you would expect something that was designed a bit better? Anyway, I managed to find a work around that problem. Lately however I have had a lot of trouble. I'll spare you the boring technical details, but suffice it to say that over the last 3 months I have spent around £300 in repair bills and the problem that originally set all this in motion has just resurfaced. So here I am £300 lighter and with a desk that is still sick. It hasn't helped that the guy who services it and is the UK specialist has recently moved to Cornwall, which is a 600-mile round trip for me! Therefore I have reached the point of no return with the blasted thing. I could spend another several hundred pounds on it only to have it go wrong again so I am going to have to sell it as spares or repair for next to nothing and purchase myself another desk. What a bummer!!!!!!!! Oh well, who wants to be wealthy anyway eh? I don't think it is a problem I am ever going to have to face. I should have chosen a job that doesn't need any technology.