After the nitelites come on...

A bit of a disappointing end to a great night: for no reason I can fathom, the levels on the recording are very distorted. After some testing, I narrowed it down to the mixer; a crap-assed Pioneer! Since there's no adjustment of the levels for the rec-out apart from the individual channel gains and since we kept said gains out of the red, there is no reason for the hot recording other than some internal fault. I've thought for a long time that Pioneer mixers were of questionable quality at an inflated price, and this lends even more credence to that belief. Why people continue to buy/insist on them I'll never understand.