Why Drinking Wine Can Be Hazardous To Your Wealth

Another story from the same recording studio complex as my last posting.

This was a 3 studio complex in the U.K and they had just completed the building and equipment installation of their third room...total cost around £500,000.
It came to the day of the Grand Opening with assorted V.I.P's and drink flowing freely...the owner of the business was justifiably very proud of his new 60 channel SSL 'E' series monster of a console, and was showing off his new baby whilst swigging red wine.
He placed his glass near the faders to make some point and waved his arms around enthusiastically. The obvious thing happened.....
He spilt the whole glass of red wine over at least 8 of the channels of the pristine console faders, much to the horror of the ageing maintenance employee.
Although they tried to mop it up...as soon as the sticky nectar dried..the 8 or so channels were perceptibly stiff for many weeks until they could replace said faders at a high cost.
There's a lesson to be learned here and god knows what would have happened if it had been one of the staff engineers that did it instead of the owner!

As a side note...I remember doing another session in a different studio with the same owner who was 'producing' the session...he sat down in the very comfy reclining recording studio chairs and.......immediately did a backward somersault..he had leaned too far back!
Hilarious!

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