Well, actually the name was thought up and given to me by my old friend Jake Schaefer, but I have embraced it because it is often true. It's a way of laughing at those moments when my propensity to act or talk before thinking overcomes my better judgement. Or my striking occasional ability to become befuddled by the simplest of things. (Recent example - got in the minivan and discovered that I couldn't shift from Park into Drive. Wha?? Started to worry about the repair cost. 10 minutes of trying to figure out what the issue was and if I could get around it to drive home. Friend who stopped to help says, "Is your foot on the brake?" It wasn't. Foot on brake, shifts as expected. Facepalm.)
So in my last post I savaged the staff at the local outpost of the national music retailer for its incompetence, indifference, and general dirtbaggery. It was all about my frustrating experience buying a TASCAM DP-008 recorder. They certainly deserved it, however.
Here's the kicker, though - I made the wrong choice of recorder anyway!! Don't that beat all? I wanted a machine that would record 4 simultaneous tracks of audio, because at Maybe Tuesday's upcoming CD Release Party I need to record our performance. I want to capture a stereo feed direct from the house sound system - that's two tracks - while capturing stereo ambience and audience noise with a pair of microphones, and that's another two tracks. The TASCAM is an 8-track recorder, but will only record 2 tracks at a time. I got KenFused. Worse, I didn't discover this until after the store's 100% refund period had ended, AND I had thrown away the packaging. BRAVO!!
BOSS makes a device that will do exactly what I want, so I will be putting the TASCAM up on eBay and hoping for a decent sale, putting the proceeds into buying the BOSS product.
KenFused. Yep.
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