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I realize many of my friends here on LJ love technology. But it annoys the shit out of me.
I bought a enw sound system because the one iapos;ve used for 12 years is too heavy, and i need something i can handle with no help from others, as I play company parties and other places where itapos;s not appropriate ot ask for assistance.
SO I bought this damn expensive Bose personal sound system.
I used it once so far. It took me 3 trips from the car to bring in all the pieces. It was still kind of heavy, but I did manage to at least not look to others like I was going to hurt myself putting it together (sure did work up a sweat though). I had a problem with the mic which I hope was just a bad cable. Made some horrible noises, finally had to borrow a mic and cable from the venue. Then I turned it up as loud as it would go adn it was barely loud enough to fill the room, a room the size of your typical filk concert room (not as big as OVFF, but as big as say GaFilk or Consonance, or the secondary room at most SF cons. WTF?
SO the guy from customer service called today "courtesy call" to see how everything was going and I told him I wasnapos;t impressed.
(In fact I have buyerapos;s remorse).
He suggests I get out the manual, go dial in a bunch of settings to specifically match my microphone and guitar blah blah blah.
I donapos;t want to work with computers when Iapos;m gigging (or at all, but Iapos;ve come to terms with that. Mostly). I at this point want to just go back to my simple heavy clumsy bulky straightforward PA system that is just a bunch of damn knobs. I donapos;t need to fart around with computer chips to use it. Just plug and twisty twisty til it sounds good. I may drop the speakers on my head trying to get them on top of the stands, but itapos;s worth the concussion to not have computer chips inside my sound system. Thatapos;s what I think, Mr Customer service courtesy call.
I wish he hadnapos;t called, because I had basically put the thing in the garage and not been thinking about it. Now Iapos;m in a sh*tty mood.
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