[LAU] Pro Audio? OT rant.

[Thomas Vecchione]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 9:58 AM, John Murphy <rosegardener at freeode.co.uk>wrote:

> As a newcomer to the "Pro Audio" industry and a long time *nix user
> (somewhat mitigating this outburst here) I must say I'm not impressed.
>
> I've spent thousands recently and found suppliers either just don't
> 'know' the products they sell, or purposely misrepresent them. In one
> instance it took nearly a month to obtain a refund!
>
>
You need to get better suppliers then.  Can't help you on your side of the
pond, but I can tell you there is a huge difference on my side of the pond
between most stores and suppliers.


> Why must I have so many microphone inputs? I'm a solo poet/musician
> with one mic. and enough places to plug it in to sink a battleship.
>
>
You don't need to get that many mic inputs unless you want them.  There are
multiple interfaces I can think of with 2 or less mic inputs but still
having ADAT or multiple line inputs.  And of course there are numerous 2
channel or so interfaces.


> Synth manufacturers: Why no ADAT out?
>
>
Korg Triton, as an example, years ago had it.  I liked the concept, in
reality it very rarely got used, thus why it likely got removed(Pure
assumption on my part).  For gigging musicians, it means savings thousands
of dollars on AD/DA conversion, for studio musicians many are switching to
controllers and computer based synths or using analog synths.

        Seablade
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