Hilarious post over on the Sweetwater Forum

[aitikin]

So I occasionally show up at Sweetwater's forums. Today I felt like taking a look again. I found this: http://www.sweetwater.com/forums/showth ... e20-EV-mic

Read the first three posts. I was laughing so hard at it I had to share it.

[losthighway]

In that poor goofballs defense it appears from his grammar that he speaks English as a second language which can sometimes make you sound a bit curt (as I find with my Spanish).

But it doesn't get any better than:

"Feedback is usually the result of pointing speakers at mics or having speakers too close to mics. You didn't really provide much info about your setup so it's hard to help you more than that."

"i did give you where i put the mic. it goes in the mackie 1640i i'm not sure how much more information you need. what more can i say."

That makes the most derailed tapeop thread look like a wizard summit.

[niccolo gallio]

It gets better and better..
And some more...

[alexdingley]

So... I just read the whole thread. Uhm... My brain hurts. And as someone who makes his living by helping people to troubleshoot in a world that they don't know the basic vocabulary for*... I feel for the guy. But moreover, I feel for the Sales Engineer who's gonna get an earful of questions when that guy goes to buy his first compressor.

[DrummerMan]

that whole thing just made me kind of sad and anxious. there's obviously been a big lack of communication from the start...

[thethingwiththestuff]

it's almost like they'd previously sold stuff to a guy who wasn't really ready to handle all that gear, just to make a sale.

[lee]

That makes the most derailed tapeop thread look like a wizard summit.

"I don't know what is the matter, just tell me what I have to buy!"
retailers salivate.

[richierichie]

The guy just sounds like someone who doesn't have any background knowledge of audio equipment, and doesn't speak English as his first language, as others have said. But is it still ok to laugh at:

" i have a shure PG58. BUT I WANNA GET THE ONE THAT HUEY LEWIS HAS."

[Nick Sevilla]

Sorry...

I call B.S. on the poster's part. I think he is pulling everyone's leg.

Cheers

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That thread is pretty amazing.

However, it is likely the work of a troll.

(I just want the one Huey Lewis has)

[Andy Peters]

it's almost like they'd previously sold stuff to a guy who wasn't really ready to handle all that gear, just to make a sale.

And this is a surprise?

-a

[Andy Peters]

So I occasionally show up at Sweetwater's forums. Today I felt like taking a look again. I found this: http://www.sweetwater.com/forums/showth ... e20-EV-mic

Read the first three posts. I was laughing so hard at it I had to share it.

That's just sad.

Funny as all fuck, but sad.

-a

[Gregg Juke]

>>>>I call B.S. on the poster's part. I think he is pulling everyone's leg.<<<<

Maybe. It would sure seem like it has to be a joke, right?

But then again, there's the story that the late Steve Bradley, the audio professor at the University of Buffalo, used to tell.

Early in his career (college?), Steve had been a stereo salesman. One day, a guy came in the store and asked for the best speakers in the joint, "Money is no object." He (the customer) listened to several very expensive pairs (this would have been back in the 70's; you pick a brand, it doesn't really impact the punch-line of the story-- JBL's, Polk's, Bose, whatever). The guy seemed well-versed in specs and was asking a lot of questions about impedance and things like Total Harmonic Distortion, etc. He picked-out an expensive pair of speakers, and paid cash. Steve gave the guy his card and said "Call me and let me know how great they sound when you get them home! I'm here if you have any problems or questions."

The next day, the customer calls, livid. He is melting the phone receiver with his vitriol. "You sold me a pile of %$#@% speakers! Now what the &^%$#@ are you gonna do about it!"

"Hold on, slow down. What's the problem? The speakers melted and started on fire you say? Oh my gosh; bring them in and we'll take a look. We'll certainly replace anything that was defective!"

The guy brings them back, and they are toasted. Voice-coil, speaker cones, the whole nine. So Steve starts with the questions. "What happened? They started on fire? I just don't understand it. Can you walk me through the steps you went through to hook them up?" Thinking that this would have been a simple story of the guy running some speaker wire from his tuner to the speakers, pressing the "on" button and dialing in a station, Steve waited for the guy to explain.

This was back in the 70's, remember. No internet, no wireless, no wi-fi, no "cloud" music, no ipods, no CD's. Your music was on the radio, or it was on vynil, or _maybe_ reel-to-reel or 8-track cartridge. Are you still with me?


WAIT FOR IT...


The guy took the expensive speakers home, took some lamp cord w/two-prong plugs, and a soldering iron, and soldered plugs directly to the speakers. Then, he plugged them into his 110 wall outlet, and waited for the music to come out...

GJ

[DrummerMan]

The guy took the expensive speakers home, took some lamp cord w/two-prong plugs, and a soldering iron, and soldered plugs directly to the speakers. Then, he plugged them into his 110 wall outlet, and waited for the music to come out...

GJ

Now THAT's funny.

[CurtZHP]

What's the problem? The speakers melted and started on fire you say?

It was at this point I knew exactly what he'd done. Classic!

As for RE20 Boy (if he's for real), can you imagine how deaf his clients must be??