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Originally Posted by joelpatterson  Time for another in my series of Reality Checks:
If ANYONE has had something other than a joyous experience at a Guitar Center, YOU ARE NOT DOING IT RIGHT!
You need to get over to the Albany, New York store, where either Chris or Adrian or Jason will take very good care of you, treat you with joviality and respect and a genuine interest in what you're after, slap you a high five and leave you with a twinge of sadness that you have to leave and can't spend more time there.
These guys are nothing but friendly and professional and easy-going and knowledgeable, got me my Sony PCM-D50 without any slight hint of a glitch and let me talk them into selling me the demo Rolls line mixer in the rack in the corner for NEXT TO NOTHING, I mean they didn't pay me to take it but just about!
Sure it's fun to tell ridiculous stories-- when you've had enough of that, it's time for Albany.
(Now that's a phrase to trademark, someone.) |
except the last time i went in to the albany store (to buy a nice set of phones for my brother as a birthday present), the pro audio guys *would not* let me listen out of even a "decent" D/A + headphone amp to test a few sets.
first they wanted me to plug the phones into the one dude's iPod.
then they wanted me to plug it into some ghetto-looking DJ thing that switches between 2 cds.
i just wanted to listen in a quiet, enclosed room, plugging the headphones into the Pro Tools setup and checking out a few mixes i'd brought in order to A/B the phones. they wouldn't allow it until i got the manager involved.
then, the computer didn't work. PT kept crashing before i could even import the file. dude wouldn't let me trash the PT prefs + databases to try to make it work.
the hell with that place.
Parkway Music in Clifton Park will actually treat you like a human. and their Pro Audio guys might have even mixed a live show or twenty.