James, if you want to offer a certain technique you've learned and cite that it makes some sense procedurally or logistically or something, go for it. If you want to cite some technical justification, though, please research it first. Don't rely on assumptions or long-held beliefs that may actually be myth. There are many technical resources out there, more numerous and accessible than back when I first started writing pro audio articles. Use them and present real, useful information, and you can produce good articles. Dismiss the cumulative knowledge that many in the pro audio community have gathered and spread misinformation instead, and you'll have knowledgeable people taking issue with what you say. Don't make that out to be a personality conflict.

I'm not going to give a wink and a nod to erroneous information just because you're a QSC user. There are many other QSC users out there besides yourself--and non-users as well--who deserve factual information.

Here I go, ignoring my own advice.

James --

a) Please provide links to examples of Bob's impositions. I've been reading his articles and forum posts for as long as Doug (!) and he's always restrained and well-informed. One suspects your animosity results from him calling you out. You do yourself no favors by continuing to post inciteful instead of insightful comments.

b) How old was the particular QSC amp from which that "long forgotten input board" came? One suspects it's pretty ancient. A lot of old amps with single-ended inputs did have a simple pot at the front end (and I'm sure Pat Quilter would rather forget such designs), but put simply, all modern amplifiers with balanced inputs have a differential input stage followed by the attenuator. Perhaps you might wish to tell us why this is the case.

Anyways -- the door of the LAB is always open, if you wish to discuss this, and any other, live-sound topic.

Good luck.

The least deserving of all? I've seen Mr. Lee impose himself upon others by wading into places uninvited wielding his imperialistic objectivism like a club more than once.

Oh, by the way, just this weekend I was digging through a box of old parts looking for some supplies for a project I was working on. I came across a long forgotten input board taken from a QSC amp. Want to know the funny thing? The traces from the input jacks went directly to a pair of pots with nary an active device in the path. Is that not a passive attenuator? I then cut the pot section of the board off for use in my project.

Hey, Doug,

You know better than to feed a troll ;)

-a

>>>>>I find it interesting that the official spokesperson for QSC deems it appropriate to call into question the operational concepts of one man. I’m also surprised that QSC doesn’t have any problems insulting a customer and owner of QSC products.

Sir, Bob Lee has been providing world class customer support via the web since before PSW existed, and since before the LAB existed, way back when a group of us met on the CompuServe LSMAG forum.

Your comment is so uninformed it is laughable. I mean really, of all the people you could make an uninformed jab at, you picked the least deserving of all.

It looks like there is a pattern here. You post highly questionable 'information', people who have around a loooooooong time take you to task for it, and you push back. Word to the wise - know who you're talking to. You have not bothered to do that.