There comes a point in every engineer’s life at which they need a mixing desk, and for me that point is now. But the marketplace for a cheap small mixer just ain’t what it used to be.

The mixing desk that Pink Floyd used to record Dark Side Of The Moon recently sold for US$1.8m. The EMI TG12345 MK IV desk is one of only two ever made and it was used extensively between 1971 and ...

The mixing desk is more than a practical studio utility. At the risk of sounding romantic, I’m going to suggest it’s also a symbolic piece of kit, steeped in the history of hands-on audio engineering ...