Jeff Wexler Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 So pleased that we have someone who replies to everybody's posts! What a blessing for this site. So often the answers are so concise, so economical in the choice of words, so helpful. I have been archiving these answers, hoping someday to publish a reference work "Words of Wisdom from JWSOUNDGROUP". Chapter One: "Yes" followed by Chapter Two: "It Depends", Chapter Three: "Read the Effin' Manual", "Do a Search", and on and on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason porter Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 The days that I avoid JWSound are the days that the list of topics all end in - Last Post-studiomprd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angelo Waldron Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Your website would be pretty dull without Studiomprd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olle Sjostrom Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 I thought "The Mad Hatter" was a fairytale. Thanks to JWSOUND, I was proven wrong. Seriously though, I can't tribute the guy enough. At least he has an agenda and he's following it like a robot which is always fascinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Coomer Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 He can be very enlightening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryF Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Chapter 3 is my favorite. LEF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old school Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Speaking only for myself, I like puns and corny jokes. The 1st 100 times you hear them they are groan worthy and not very funny. It is after that mystical 100th or 1000th time that they become funny. You see them coming and they get even funnier. That's the way Mike is for me. I also find it funny that he annoys such a majority of folks here @jwsound. Look at it this way, if we didn't have Mike we'd be at each others throats more often. He's like the mud on a bee sting, he pulls out the poison so to speak. BTW, you need another film Jeff. Keeping this list will exhaust you. The Senator is relentless. CrewC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taylormadeaudio Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 ^ +11... yeah Crew ~tt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afewmoreyears Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Love the Senators posts...always amusing... Don't take them personally... Just read...smile and take from them what you will...or..nothing at all... It really is that simple... For me reading Mikes posts are fun to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryF Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Love the Senators posts...always amusing... Don't take them personally... Just read...smile and take from them what you will...or..nothing at all... It really is that simple... For me reading Mikes posts are fun to do. Mike Happens. LEF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olle Sjostrom Posted August 27, 2014 Report Share Posted August 27, 2014 Mike Happens. LEF LOTD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
al mcguire Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 When to select MARK BOARD as READ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Toline Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 OCD in action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindrop Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Fairly benign, but less entertaining and much less informative than the wild cards on RAMPS all that time ago. Now they were often quite creative and uncovered a lot of new information and solutions if you could put up with the often insulting manner and even find it amusing, in an over the top kind of way. Though some of the scraps did get out of hand and boring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Wexler Posted August 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Infinitely better than r.a.m.p.s. (that's why I started JWSOUND in the first place). I hope no one thinks I was really slamming you know who --- I just find it amusing when I see the whole lineup of his avatar with one post after another. I am surprised as well the number of people who seem to get really upset by these posts --- there is no harm done, often there is value with these posts, I wouldn't want it any different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Mike Happens. LEF LOTD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Norflus Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Mike Happens. LEF I smell a possible ramps party t-shirt... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Miramontes Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Infinitely better than r.a.m.p.s. (that's why I started JWSOUND in the first place). I hope no one thinks I was really slamming you know who --- I just find it amusing when I see the whole lineup of his avatar with one post after another. I am surprised as well the number of people who seem to get really upset by these posts --- there is no harm done, often there is value with these posts, I wouldn't want it any different. I think it's funniest when you or Eric Toline let him get under your skin from time to time. I'm in full agreement with Crew's view on him. He's the guy in the room that you just can't wait to hear respond after someone asks a question that'll set him off. Sounds to me like this thread is about to bust out singing "for he's a jolly good fellow..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Perkins Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 NO RAMPS redux please, so much personal ad hominem noise….. philp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 Speaking only for myself, I like puns and corny jokes. The 1st 100 times you hear them they are groan worthy and not very funny. It is after that mystical 100th or 1000th time that they become funny. You see them coming and they get even funnier. Exactly. I participate in several other industry discussion groups, and I've told the Senator in-person, "I'm almost turning into the crusty curmudgeon on these forums, yelling 'read the F'in' manual! Do a Google search! This question has been asked 700 times before! It's the archer, not the arrows! Hire a professional!'" Far too many neophytes want easy solutions to complex problems, and they also think there's a magic button that fixes everything. And typically, even though they don't want to hear it, these are all correct answers. The worst situations I see are when people go out, do their shoot (or their audio or their timecode or their edit) completely wrong, then ask why it's not working. It's sort of like driving the train off the tracks, then asking, "can anybody tell me the best way to drive a train?" It's sad when that happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Kersten Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 He is like this forums furniture ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pindrop Posted August 28, 2014 Report Share Posted August 28, 2014 NO RAMPS redux please, so much personal ad hominem noise….. philp Excellent I've learned something new, had to look up ad hominem ... Abusive ad hominem usually involves attacking the traits of an opponent as a means to invalidate their arguments. Equating someone's character with the soundness of their argument is a logical fallacy. Mere verbal abuse in the absence of an argument, however, is not ad hominem nor any kind of logical fallacy. Thanks philp. I guess I find ad hominem amusing because it can be so ridiculous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Rose Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 people go out, do their shoot (or their audio or their timecode or their edit) completely wrong, then ask why it's not working... What I hate isn't the ones who come back and say "why isn't the sync stable?" or even "why is there so much echo?"... at least they recognize the specific issue, and are willing to go halfway to solving their problem, and might learn for the next shoot. (Okay, I'm optimistic.) What I hate are the ones who come back and say either, "I did it just like the big-time engineers I've seen in 'making of' movies... so it's not my fault" or "What plug-in do I use that'll fix it? Can you give me a copy of your serial number for that plugin?" Makes me want to emulate the Senator, sometime. (Except I'm stuck with this gentlemanly persona I evolved for my web writing....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Wielage Posted August 29, 2014 Report Share Posted August 29, 2014 What I hate isn't the ones who come back and say "why isn't the sync stable?" or even "why is there so much echo?"... at least they recognize the specific issue, and are willing to go halfway to solving their problem, and might learn for the next shoot. (Okay, I'm optimistic.) One of my big things when I wear my sound hat is, if somebody snaps, "there's a train coming! We have a sound problem!" And I'll frown and say "we have a location problem." Sound is just fine. I have dealt with an amazing number of otherwise bright producers who choose very bad locations on occasion. The smart ones listen in on the Comteks, nod to me and say, "I get it. It is what is. Let's roll." So they understand the issues but have to deal with what fate handed them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crussell Posted September 19, 2014 Report Share Posted September 19, 2014 20 or so replies in on this thread and he hasn't chimed in yet? Did you block him Jeff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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