Anybody ever had an equipment failure during your live stream? We had one last night. One of our mixer channels had a meltdown. Ear piercing glitch followed by mellow static. Almost like the ocean sound in a sea shell......

What's sad is it happened on our backup mixer. The normal unit is in the shop for repair and it's less than a year old! The backup (which was the original mixer we started out with almost six years ago) already had four bad channels. They're droppin' like flies! Pretty much ALL of its line inputs are now toast.

Both the backup/old mixer and the new one that's being repaired are Behringer. I've defended this company from time to time but my confidence in them, as you can imagine, is pretty shaken now. They also gave me a loaner unit that sounds like $#%&. The sliders on all the line inputs affect the volume of the mic inputs! When you pot one of them up the mics get all distorted, almost like they're clipping even though they aren't. Now I'm no sound engineer, but sliders changing the volume of channels they're not even on? That defeats the whole purpose of a multi-channel mixer, does it not?

And what's more, the local branch is telling me it's going to be eight weeks for the parts to be shipped. Eight weeks! Is this stuff coming on a 19th century steam boat? Luckily, Music Group has a warranty repair center in Las Vegas (where I live) so I didn't have to ship anything. It's a 20-minute drive to drop off and pick up.

Needless to say, corporate is getting an E-Mail. Their response will dictate how nice I stay. I may just bite the bullet and buy a Mackie. I've used them in the past. Anyone had any experience with Allen & Heath?