garden mixer

last week, one of the items i've recently bought arrived, it's an active monitor, (speaker) and it's lovely...

one more thing to carry to gigs and i probably won't always, but it's good to know i will be able to hear myself if i do take it...

this afternoon i decided to clean up my mixing desk, it's been in a bad state for a little while, gathering dust even when i was using it every day...

so i got my can of servisol 10 & i set about squirting it into various bits of the mixer, (a mackie, same brand as the new speaker)... after having done 4 channels (of 16) with a lovely advancing cleanness visible... i decided to heed the advice on the can and not do all this in an enclosed space...

i took the new speaker, plugged my phone into it and put it on my window sill...

a de la soul album pumping out which i've been enjoying very much for the last couple of weeks,

i took the mixer and the can outside into the garden and i had an enjoyable 45 minutes, cleaning up the rest of the mixer... in the best way i could think of, which hopefully is the proper way...

the album lasted exactly the right amount of time, i was a little aware that i might have been being antisocial with my loud music, but it was only an album, in the middle of the afternoon, and had anyone raised their head over the fence i would have turned it down...

anyway, it's such beautiful music, i'm sure all my neighbours appreciated it anyway...

i haven't yet tested the mixer, that's a task for tomorrow, but i'm glad to have done it...

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