So I decide to add another mic to the Dr B stable for future IR file releases and found a great deal on a used Shure SM7b in great shape that could be shipped to my local store.
I get notified the mic arrived at my local GC in Paramus and go to pick it up. Guy at the counter sees my receipt and says I'll be tight back.
No exaggeration, I wait 20 minutes and he comes out with a shipping box the size of an Axe-fx II shipping box. I'm cringing because I'm wondering if the store in Virginia shipped the correct item to me- I had this happen before that a store shipped the wrong thing.
So I open the box. There's 5 pounds of bubble wrap in there and a smaller box. I open that up and the mic is there. All is good I think.
Sales dude then proceeds to try and hard sell me on a Cloud Lifter that "I absolutely need" because that mic is +10 level for broadcast and won't work with your setup."
I try cracking a joke by saying, I have a pro setup. If I can drive ribbon mics, Neumann mics, and various quiet mics, I'm sure I won't need the Cloud Lifter, my setup isn't prosumer or hobbyist level.
He proceeds to tell me if I don't have a broadcast console that I'll just be coming back anyways. I reply, I worked at one of the largest commercial recording studios in the area and we had no problems driving the same model mic with a similar impedance and gain structure mic pre, I think I will be fine. I ask him, what did Bruce Swieden do with this mic and no Cloud Lifter invented when he recorded Michael Jackson's Thriller?
He harrumphs and lets me sign for the mic being recieved.
Is that what Guitar Center is reduced to, people not knowing what they are talking about and trying to take advantage of people that might not know better?
I get notified the mic arrived at my local GC in Paramus and go to pick it up. Guy at the counter sees my receipt and says I'll be tight back.
No exaggeration, I wait 20 minutes and he comes out with a shipping box the size of an Axe-fx II shipping box. I'm cringing because I'm wondering if the store in Virginia shipped the correct item to me- I had this happen before that a store shipped the wrong thing.
So I open the box. There's 5 pounds of bubble wrap in there and a smaller box. I open that up and the mic is there. All is good I think.
Sales dude then proceeds to try and hard sell me on a Cloud Lifter that "I absolutely need" because that mic is +10 level for broadcast and won't work with your setup."
I try cracking a joke by saying, I have a pro setup. If I can drive ribbon mics, Neumann mics, and various quiet mics, I'm sure I won't need the Cloud Lifter, my setup isn't prosumer or hobbyist level.
He proceeds to tell me if I don't have a broadcast console that I'll just be coming back anyways. I reply, I worked at one of the largest commercial recording studios in the area and we had no problems driving the same model mic with a similar impedance and gain structure mic pre, I think I will be fine. I ask him, what did Bruce Swieden do with this mic and no Cloud Lifter invented when he recorded Michael Jackson's Thriller?
He harrumphs and lets me sign for the mic being recieved.
Is that what Guitar Center is reduced to, people not knowing what they are talking about and trying to take advantage of people that might not know better?
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