Can't blame the singer 🙂... and the mixer was a freebie from a mate of the guitarists.
Vocal, guitar, bass and electric drums all through the mixer. We also recorded the rehearsal through the desk.
Drums and guitar were clipping almost all the time. The FOH sound was showing the bass drum distorting all the time. I wasn't clipping, but was really low in the mix and farting periodically.
This all showed up in the recording with the added bonus that one channel was louder than the other. We had problems first off with only one channel actually working, thought we'd resolved it but the recording said otherwise.
Hey ho.