Blue thinks we're a bunch of geeks.

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Yea, I don't think their intention was to hurt your feelings.

I'm sure if they knew ... they would apologize. And bake you cookies.

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its kinda condescending, and entertaining..

This thing will make me immortal!”
— Frosty (lead singer of The Snowmen)
“The next best thing to plugging a USB connector into your neck”
— Rodney Petersburg, President, North Platte Star Trek Fan Club
 
I don't have the time (or patience) to read it at the moment. However, I have the BlueBall, read the manual, and found it rather entertaining...
 
Hve you guys looked at yourselves lately???????

YOU'RE A BUNCH OF GEEKS!!!
 
RTFM is usually used in the context of other pieces of equipment, not so much mics.
but the smowball may be an exception to this general rule, as it also kinda falls into the catagory of "computer hardware"

but imo, a careful reading of a microphone instruction manual does in most instances indeed prove geekiness.
 
Obviously they aimed that at first-time buyers that have no idea what to expect.

You guys need to go back and read your Roland manuals from about 1980 or so. At least BLUE is telling you about their product in a language from our planet.
 
giraffe said:
but imo, a careful reading of a microphone instruction manual does in most instances indeed prove geekiness.
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What if you're looking at the manual to get the specs or view the polar pattern/frequency response graphs?
Maybe still geeky, but a fairly normal thing to do around here, I would think.
 
c7sus said:
Hve you guys looked at yourselves lately???????

YOU'RE A BUNCH OF GEEKS!!!
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So...?

I read it. I thought it was a bit entertaining. It's been done before though. Anybody ever read the manual for the Epson MX80 dot matrix printer? No? Hey, I thought we were all a bunch of geeks!

Anyway, one thing I learned as a technical writer is humor in a technical work is a tricky. First, it has to be, um, humorous. Otherwise everything around it comes off lame. Second, it should NOT offend. Otherwise, the real content - the purpose for writing it - goes in one ear and out the other. If you can't make humor work, leave it out. No one will miss it.
 
kojdogg said:
A cause worthy of uniting pirates and ninjas perhaps?
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I rarely actually laugh out loud at posts but damn that is funny!

War

PS: The Snowball is used in parts on the new Crossfade album on Columbia Records. Ed carried one with him and when he was inspired on the road he would take it out and lay down vocal ideas and some of them made it to the album. I'm not saying it's a stellar mic, but I am saying it's good enough for some things and Randy Staub didn't make him replace the tracks.
 
Dogman said:
I thought Snowball involved 2 chicks???
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Hmmmmmm......I'm thinking of a number between 35 and 37...

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War :D
 
FALKEN said:
why don't you post it? I'm not going to go buy that POS just to read the manual and get pissed off. anyway...the blue snowball? that's a joke right?
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What part of "I downloaded the pdf manual" didn't you understand? :rolleyes:
 
who cares, they are from Latvia.

they get 20cents a month probably to work there in the blue factory.

poor bastards.
 
MadAudio said:
I downloaded the pdf manual for the Blue Snowball in an effort to help someone with a question yesterday. What I found was a manual that was trying to emulate the humor of the Mackie manuals, but to me it was condescending to those of us that have been working hard to understand what the hell it is we're doing.Granted, this particular mic is aimed at the entry-level consumer, but the tone it took was ultimately offensive IMO.Fuck Blue.
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Just keep in mind that we are responsible for our own actions and reactions so take a deep breath, count to 2 and just don't take it so damn personally. You are just too cool to let this get you down. :D
Now if it had read "Mad Audio you are a sophomoric ass and dumber than a street brick and even though we are marketing this to the entire world, we dumbed this down just for you plus Beavis and Butthead (henh henh....henh henh)" then there might be room for feeling offended or better yet, accepting the name recognition and royalties!. :rolleyes:
By the way, I dont particularly care for the writing style either but it's just another manual in the sea of manuals whether they be for bikes, computer set-up, Pro-Tools, or cheap furniture.:confused:
 
Mad, I don't understand how you found the manual to be condescending........................Personally, I hate dry, boring, fucking manuals like those put out by Roland.

Sorry about saying fuck..........I did'nt mean to offend you. :D
 
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