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<blockquote data-quote="Tim McCulloch" data-source="post: 93237" data-attributes="member: 67">Re: Bad mic shockOne of my pet peeves is the bullshit attitude that the artist&#039;s equipment is never at fault.&nbsp; Old batteries in an acoustic guitar?&nbsp; Gotta be the production company...&nbsp; Popping on an input?&nbsp; Gotta be the PA system - couldn&#039;t possibly be the artist&#039;s ME turning on +48 to a wireless receiver (this happened recently).As providers it seems we are required to do all kinds of shit to prove OUR gear is right, but until then the performer&#039;s gear is not to be considered suspect.&nbsp; BULLSHIT.&nbsp; I&#039;ve got a long story about a BE for a band named for a deadly biological poison that I&#039;ll write up as a blog post sometime, but the short version is that he was convinced one side of our PA was blown... and after 2 hours of trying to demonstrate the problem was on his end, we eventually demonstrated to his boss that the problems were caused by the BE&#039;s direct physical actions and were not failures of our system, components or personnel.&nbsp; And I hope that he is still living it down...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tim McCulloch, post: 93237, member: 67"] Re: Bad mic shock One of my pet peeves is the bullshit attitude that the artist's equipment is never at fault. Old batteries in an acoustic guitar? Gotta be the production company... Popping on an input? Gotta be the PA system - couldn't possibly be the artist's ME turning on +48 to a wireless receiver (this happened recently). As providers it seems we are required to do all kinds of shit to prove OUR gear is right, but until then the performer's gear is not to be considered suspect. BULLSHIT. I've got a long story about a BE for a band named for a deadly biological poison that I'll write up as a blog post sometime, but the short version is that he was convinced one side of our PA was blown... and after 2 hours of trying to demonstrate the problem was on his end, we eventually demonstrated to his boss that the problems were caused by the BE's direct physical actions and were not failures of our system, components or personnel. And I hope that he is still living it down... [/QUOTE]

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