NOOBS! Help us help you by NOT just quoting brand/model numbers.

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Armistice

Son of Yoda
Believe it or not, I (and I suspect most of the regular noobie helpers) don't keep an encyclopaedia of exactly what type of device every brand and model number actually is in our heads.

And with global branding strategies, lots of manufacturers are in lots of markets, making lots of different classes of audio device.

I seem to be constantly googling your make model numbers to find out :wtf: you are referring to so I can help you with your problem when usually, the problem is not actually related to your exact model device at all.

So don't just say "I'm having trouble connecting my Sentient 24DX II to my Asterix 1540RR" and suchlike.

Using additional descriptive words like "interface", "DAW", "computer", "microphone", "keyboard" and the like will get you a much more accurate answer much more quickly...

Here are some sample questions so you get the concept...

(a) What cable do I need to connect my Stellar DeGromulator 3346CCX interface to my JamBanana 56A monitors?

(b)My band's incredibly untalented and ugly arsehole bassplayer is hitting on my spunkbubble lust interest girlfriend - if I kill him, can I plead reasonable cause?

etc.


Thank you :mad:

/rant

I feel much better now...:D
 
Armistice said:
(a) What cable do I need to connect my Stellar DeGromulator 3346CCX interface to my JamBanana 56A monitors?
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That would be the IntraFlex PhaseCom Mk III supercable, dude :D

But yes, I have to agree it gets very frustrating trying to decipher what is being asked.

+1 to your suggestion Armistice

Dags
 
Dags said:
That would be the IntraFlex PhaseCom Mk III supercable, dude :DDags
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To my ears the MegaTron 5000 Pro-Sumer-Giga-Biter platinum coated cables with the NewTrick 99 cent Studio Quality AutoTuner option sound much better!
 
I just watched "Naughty Sticky Noobs". Those Germans make the sickest pron. :eek:
 
Armistice said:
(b)My band's incredibly untalented and ugly arsehole bassplayer is hitting on my spunkbubble lust interest girlfriend - if I kill him, can I plead reasonable cause?
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And what model numbers would that bassplayer and girlfriend be?
 
Scatalogical diversions to the side....

Well said Arm'!
It is my practice to Google for the user manual when specific equipments are mentioned and I have by now amassed a vast file of .pdf manuals! One day I shall get around to organizing them! "Mixers", "AIs", "Pre amps" etc.

I agree however that for a less technical enquiry it is very useful to have immediate knowledge of what one is reading the cluck about!

Point to noobs: DO download the user manual if you don't have it and often you will find a "block diagram" of the signal routing in the device, almost always the case with mixers (rarely so for AIs for some reason?). This diagram is like the Tube map, it tells you where you are and how to get to where you want to be. Do not whinge that you cannot understand such "technicals"! You have chosen to enter a VERY technical and jargon ridden area of activity...Learn!

Oh! And I don't like stickies overmuch. Like FAQ's nobody reads them and LIKE FAQs the question YOU want to ask is never there. Quite!

Dave.
 
Over at GroupDIY, you're expected to use the search function first before asking a question. Although it also has "meta thread" ---like this: Meta-Meta: Look here for overview.. which organize topics. That's something I've been bitching about here, but no one seems to listen....

And +1 to Dave, Read Those Fine Manuals.....:-) The block diagrams are very useful from a gozinta gozouta perspective.
 
Blue Jinn said:
Over at GroupDIY, you're expected to use the search function first before asking a question. Although it also has "meta thread" ---like this: Meta-Meta: Look here for overview.. which organize topics. That's something I've been bitching about here, but no one seems to listen....

And +1 to Dave, Read Those Fine Manuals.....:-) The block diagrams are very useful from a gozinta gozouta perspective.
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Yeah but B.J! We are dealing with MOOSICIANS here or at least people of an "arteeestic" bent and not (and I am always moaning about this!) DIYers.

They will eventually learn that if you are VERY rich you don't need to know one end of a Pozi #1 from tother...Or they quickly stop making recordings.

Most "old time" musicians(big bands, early "groups") were very practical people because they had to be, fork! There used to be SEVEN different mains plugs in use around UK alone! Leads and such needed repairs, often on the fly. The bloody van needed nursing as well!

WTF do they teach peeps in school now that passes for "technology" ?

Dave.
 
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I hear you. I'm not quite old enough to remember the First Golden Age of Hi-Fi (late 1950s-early 1960s) but there was quite a bit of at least replacing tubes, if not baising your own rig. (The Second Golden Age of Hi-Fi was the 1970s, receivers with BigAss power supplies, 35v rails, discrete parts...)
 
Yeah. Am a bit surprised that they even offer it here. :wtf: <----= this one too!
 
The stickies up the top could definintely use some rationalisation. Three of them with practical advice could be rolled into one, the Mix This one cut free, Supercreep's thread could be stripped of its essence and distilled into the main one and the introduce yourself one could probably go as well.. I reckon.

I'm always saying "read the stickies" but there's too many and lots of rambling therein...
 
Blue Jinn said:
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I hear you. I'm not quite old enough to remember the First Golden Age of Hi-Fi (late 1950s-early 1960s) but there was quite a bit of at least replacing tubes, if not baising your own rig. (The Second Golden Age of Hi-Fi was the 1970s, receivers with BigAss power supplies, 35v rails, discrete parts...)
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Well I did not really mean that musicians were technical enough to delve into kit, more that they had the practical knowledge to replace a mains plug, makeup adaptor boards (for the various types) remake speaker leads.
Anyone involved in recording, tape of course, had to negotiate a field of audio connector types...Standard and GPO jacks, 1/8" jacks, that odd ~ 5mm continental jack (became the "Bantam" jack I think?). The monster XLR! DIN!* And more microphone connector variants than you can shake a Cannon plug at! If you did not learn all this stuff PDQ and get equipped you did FA and moreover looked a right ***t when you got to the venue!

*The DIN connections and levels standard was in fact perfectly rational. Trouble was few people understood it, least of all manufacturers!

Dave.
 
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