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<blockquote data-quote="Brad Harris" data-source="post: 82557" data-attributes="member: 380">I think I truly stopped reading manuals when cell phones came out en masse. Cut and dry &#039;this is what this button does&#039; manuals with no context to application or why that function is remotely useful (almost Yamahaesque).I&#039;m guilty of not reading a manual these days (specs are a different story), if a new piece of gear shows up (analogue or basic digital), after all of these years, I should know what those knobs/encoders do, or at least what they &#039;should&#039; do, or how it should flow based on the labeling. Threshold, gain, range haven&#039;t changed that much ..... Eventually I&#039;ll investigate further and find out what that blinky indicator light is, a warning or actively disrupting my signal chain (making it non linear)?With everything becoming more and more IT &#039;friendly&#039;, this is where I start with manuals, but it seems most manual writers don&#039;t know how networking/IT works with their products. My first of many headaches was with Ashly Protea control &#039;networks&#039; a decade ago. Unfortunately I was never bright enough to write down the actual i/o cabling (or if I did, my &#039;secretary&#039; (aka ex-wife) would collate and file anything out of existence for me .....)Most of my head scratchers are of things not in a manual, such as recently (and possibly soon to be a question here since I haven&#039;t gotten an answer from US or CAN reps) about Sennheiser AC3 and cascading them with each other (more specifically can they handle the dc on the antenna outs, and why they drop the main output 2db from the unit?) Or making a usable 5 band dynamic eq (and not the door stop fx unit version) on a M7 since the new FOH/PM didn&#039;t have good luck one day with the mic the lead singer uses on an unrelated gig.But then again, how many times has a few manufacturers changed the way their flagship units operated on a daily/weekly basis?Back in school, google would have been neat, but then, I wouldn&#039;t know how to do much of anything except for complain and not get answers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brad Harris, post: 82557, member: 380"] I think I truly stopped reading manuals when cell phones came out en masse. Cut and dry 'this is what this button does' manuals with no context to application or why that function is remotely useful (almost Yamahaesque). I'm guilty of not reading a manual these days (specs are a different story), if a new piece of gear shows up (analogue or basic digital), after all of these years, I should know what those knobs/encoders do, or at least what they 'should' do, or how it should flow based on the labeling. Threshold, gain, range haven't changed that much ..... Eventually I'll investigate further and find out what that blinky indicator light is, a warning or actively disrupting my signal chain (making it non linear)? With everything becoming more and more IT 'friendly', this is where I start with manuals, but it seems most manual writers don't know how networking/IT works with their products. My first of many headaches was with Ashly Protea control 'networks' a decade ago. Unfortunately I was never bright enough to write down the actual i/o cabling (or if I did, my 'secretary' (aka ex-wife) would collate and file anything out of existence for me .....) Most of my head scratchers are of things not in a manual, such as recently (and possibly soon to be a question here since I haven't gotten an answer from US or CAN reps) about Sennheiser AC3 and cascading them with each other (more specifically can they handle the dc on the antenna outs, and why they drop the main output 2db from the unit?) Or making a usable 5 band dynamic eq (and not the door stop fx unit version) on a M7 since the new FOH/PM didn't have good luck one day with the mic the lead singer uses on an unrelated gig. But then again, how many times has a few manufacturers changed the way their flagship units operated on a daily/weekly basis? Back in school, google would have been neat, but then, I wouldn't know how to do much of anything except for complain and not get answers. [/QUOTE]

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