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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Arnott" data-source="post: 82573" data-attributes="member: 304">Re: Why? Is RTFM a secret?My least favorite were the manuals for digital FX. They all claimed a &quot;intuitive&quot; layout. And &quot;natural&quot; block diagram progression. As long as they were all copying each others manuals, why not just lay them all out the same? I mean, you could walk onto any board at the time, and figure out what was going on. Ooh, they have a mid sweep, right next to the mid knob, lets add one too!But no, it was the one device where everyone thought that they could differentiate themselves from the pack. Net result, if you didn&#039;t know your FX units intimately, you were screwed. And, find me a nice XXXX verb. You are the one who requested it. Dial it up yourself. Really who needs more than two verbs per show. I would think that they would want to differentiate themselves with the algorithms. But no, one had to slog through pages of crap to find anything useful. And them commit to memory the two things that were needed from that unit. And speaking of slogging. Think if any other units came with as much baggage as an FX unit. More people spent time masturbating to the effects they were creating than all other pro sound gear combined. And then bragging about it in the manuals. (My units probably still have the 1964 presets in them, at #64. Haven&#039;t lit them up in years.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Arnott, post: 82573, member: 304"] Re: Why? Is RTFM a secret? My least favorite were the manuals for digital FX. They all claimed a "intuitive" layout. And "natural" block diagram progression. As long as they were all copying each others manuals, why not just lay them all out the same? I mean, you could walk onto any board at the time, and figure out what was going on. Ooh, they have a mid sweep, right next to the mid knob, lets add one too! But no, it was the one device where everyone thought that they could differentiate themselves from the pack. Net result, if you didn't know your FX units intimately, you were screwed. And, find me a nice XXXX verb. You are the one who requested it. Dial it up yourself. Really who needs more than two verbs per show. I would think that they would want to differentiate themselves with the algorithms. But no, one had to slog through pages of crap to find anything useful. And them commit to memory the two things that were needed from that unit. And speaking of slogging. Think if any other units came with as much baggage as an FX unit. More people spent time masturbating to the effects they were creating than all other pro sound gear combined. And then bragging about it in the manuals. (My units probably still have the 1964 presets in them, at #64. Haven't lit them up in years.) [/QUOTE]

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