[PodcastMN] Whaddya think?

[Paul Cantrell]

Usability standard in the audio industry, both hardware and software,  
seem very shoddy to me. With you there. I don't know if it's "black  
art" so much as a customer base willing to work around all kinds of  
crap, who are therefore given all kinds of crap to work around.

P

> P.S. Is it just me....or is the whole audio experience a black art?  
> It is THE most non-intuitive, expensive and goofy industry I've  
> ever seen. One example: I need to hook up the dbx box to the mixer.  
> The documentation explains terms but has NO hookup info. The mixer  
> does but isn't specific. I follow the naming conventions of send/ 
> receive to channel input on the mixer and end up calling Guitar  
> Center. It takes TWO smart guys to decipher what's up with my  
> configuration and one guy tells me to "just ignore the send/receive  
> on the dbx and route the cables to input and output at the sides".  
> That makes no sense to you as I describe it, but I'm still shaking  
> my head over the illogic of the cable routing. NO ONE would  
> intuitively understand how to do it.