There are far better and cheaper optionsavailable.

I recently bought a Mackie 1604 for a hundred bucks. It's from 1993 and they were basically designed to fall off buildings. Super transparent and likely to outlast this thing due to being much more operable. Not as pretty or quirky, but that doesn't really factor in to my use case.

For stereo compression, you can get a brand new Really Nice Compressor for a couple of hundred bucks. Steve Albini has these in his studio, so that alone should indicate their high quality.