Why do things come round all at once? I bought some cool new lights off eBay last week then found out my car needed £700 spent on it to get it through it's 90k service and MOT plus another £380 for insurance renewal (and £170 for tax next month), then one of my BSS FDS-360 crossovers decided to die at our gig on Tuesday night :(
I haven't had a chance to examine it yet, but the fact that every single LED instantly lit up like a Christmas tree when we turned it on, told me it definitely was not very happy. I had to do a bit of lateral thinking and re-patched the PA rig, using the 01V's low and high pass filters and run the bass bin off an aux send for the gig. This actually sounded pretty good so I doubt any one would have noticed. Now I've got to decide whether it's worth getting it repaired, replace it with another FDS-360 or perhaps (he says with a little glint in his eye) once my bank balance has a chance to recover, upgrade to something like driverack? :)
I love the fact that there are people in the world who will understand this post and enjoy reading it.
For some extra cash, tell the TV programme DIY SOS (or equivalent) that you fix sound systems. A new friend here in Somerset (works for a firm called Soundpro and freelances for the BBC) did that and got some work.