| Arrived in California from Brasil and couldn't wait to go buy a noce condenser mic to smuggle home to my studio. Borrowed my moms car a took myself to Guitat Center and rushed into take a peak at the mics. After the sales person helped me look at a blue bottle, AKG C12, Soundlux.... etc. he takes me to the MXL mic cabinet.
GC: Dude: I see you have high end taste sir, but these microphones really perform on a international level.
Me: What do you mean by international?
GC: They are becoming an international standard for pro recordings... lots of the discs you here on the radio are recorded with these. The sound they get is just more simple and easy to work with.
Me: Really!! Tell me..... isn't that $99.00 condenser just a hunk of shit?(as I am saying this the pro audio manager has walked up behind me)
Manager: Sir, If you were an experienced or pro audio engineer like myself or my coleague you would know that mics are like crayons.... they come in many different colors, and give different textures to the audio palet.
Me: So your telling me that this mic is the shit brown crayola color.
Manager: Sir, we don't take audio as a joke, and when you become a pro audio engineer you will realise why.
in disbelief at this point
Me: I guess you learned that lesson when you took it as a joke and ended working in the pro audio department in GC selling audio crayons to real engineers.
Manager: Sir, would you please leave the store..... thank you.
Phoned sweetwater when I got home and bought my mic online. |