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Same happens here with Fedex very frequently. Packages still arrive when they should. Mostly
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k2347
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I told my Sweetwater salesman of over 30 years DO NOT EVER SHIP VIA FEDEX.........and he did.Last year my midi keyboard lost,years before $1100 8 ch mic pre lost,few years before caught fedex driver delivering my new Tuft and Needle mattress 2 doors down from my house.The list goes on and on.Fedex=Retarded DEI hires.
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Yeah that stinks for sure. Last year I purchased as expensive Keyboard from Sweetwater. The Fed Ex Driver leaned the keyboardFedex=Retarded DEI hires
up against the front porch post. Could have fell over very easily and was exposed to the weather. It would have literally taken
him 2 more seconds to put the unit on the porch deck, laying down and out of the weather. Idiots, Fedex seems to be worst
than USPS these days. USPS has actually been pretty good for some time now
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k2347
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USPS might take a tad longer but always have been reliable 100%.Fedex......like I said are DEI low IQ thieves and retards.All of the merchants that sell the Flex 10 are out of stock and backordered for a long time.Fedex employee most likely seen what it was and stole it is my assumption.Fedex and Sweetwater have no clue as I type where my package is.As of 3 days ago last tracking was in Ohio.......I live in Arizona.Initial delivery date was Sunday August 23rd.......then moved to today the 25th and then now tracking number no longer exists.
Jemusic
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I think its a good thing. What is very cool about this is the HDrive option and the fact a transformer is in the signal path and you can drive it from relaxed to hard to create various degrees of heat. Very nice. Also the VU meters are cool also. The fact you can trim them to various ref levels also. Nothing beats a proper VU meter. The A/D and D/A will also be excellent but so are many other interfaces out there. It will not be wildly better than what you had before in that area. But the fact you can do a lot with the analog signal before it reaches your DAW is pretty special.
Skijumptoes
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Looks an interesting interface, anyone know if you can have Instruments, Line and XLR plugged in at the same time and move between the three? Or does plugging into the instrument at the front defeat the connections on the rear?
I really like the concept, and having ADAT makes it a really attractive desktop device with the volume knob close to hand.
I'd really like to know if you can direct monitor the ADAT coming in via the Flex-10 Outputs too. I know you can do this with Audient gear and save it to the hardware, but not much info on the Harrison that I can see.
I really like the concept, and having ADAT makes it a really attractive desktop device with the volume knob close to hand.
I'd really like to know if you can direct monitor the ADAT coming in via the Flex-10 Outputs too. I know you can do this with Audient gear and save it to the hardware, but not much info on the Harrison that I can see.
Jemusic
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By the way the school where I teach currently also has two of those Behringer ADA8200's. They connect to their Focusrite Clarett 8 Pre. These 8200's are great preamps which connect via ADAT to expand your input and output count. The Mic Pres in these are Midas and sound excellent. They also offer Hi Z Line inputs also. They are very affordable also.
Also a while back I completely refurbished a Harrison M32c console in a Sound production school I worked in for a bit. The Mic Pres are pretty good in these. I am sure the Mic Pres in the Flex 10 will be from the very same lineage.
Also a while back I completely refurbished a Harrison M32c console in a Sound production school I worked in for a bit. The Mic Pres are pretty good in these. I am sure the Mic Pres in the Flex 10 will be from the very same lineage.
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Kind of like my Presonus MP20 from 1999 with the Jensen transformers
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k2347
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Last year I bought a midi keyboard from Sweetwater.Fedex said delivered but the delivery pic was not of my house/address.I called Sweetwater because they have a direct line to Fedex.About 3 hours later it was delivered.Yeah that stinks for sure. Last year I purchased as expensive Keyboard from Sweetwater. The Fed Ex Driver leaned the keyboard
up against the front porch post. Could have fell over very easily and was exposed to the weather. It would have literally taken
him 2 more seconds to put the unit on the porch deck, laying down and out of the weather. Idiots, Fedex seems to be worst
than USPS these days. USPS has actually been pretty good for some time now
I was going to weigh in about my memorable experience of UPS delivering what looked like a sawed-in-half Gibson vintage acoustic with the idea of pointing out it's not just Fedex when I just came home to find my Fedex delivered fine art painting clearly marked "Signature Required" left by my door! They also emailed me a be-home for delivery window notice this AM like an hour before it began after my day was already well planned. So if there's still room can I join the Fedex Sux Club too?
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k2347
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Membership might cost you a lot of damaged and/or lost packages.
SwitchBack
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Over here - apart from often ridiculously wide (4hrs+) delivery windows - parcel delivery is pretty good. Would be good to know where in the chain things go wrong. If it's always the last stage then it may be a local (area) thing, and a reason to avoid this or that shipper.
One thing that Fedex actually excels at which few people know about is awesome packaging for very reasonable prices. If you're shipping a valuable guitar or keyboard, they really go to town on the packing material and even with the "fragile" option (you want it, it's not much more) you're out the door for like $30 box included. The shipping costs are another discussion. Often I've had Fedex do the packing and UPS or USPS the shipping.