Friday, May 22, 2015

Don't Say Voila Like It's a Magic Trick

"Don't Say Voila Like It's a Magic Trick" sounds like another Scarborough whack-job song name but the meaning is more obvious than in some others.

Example:  when I finally get the iMac back to strength ... and I will ... the utterance to the world will not be 'Voila' but rather 'Magnifique! Tres bien, tres bien!'  (Magnificent!  Very good, very good!)

And thus we observe the difference between completing something and a magic trick (i.e. digging myself out of the deepest computer hole in which I have ever found myself).

(Ed:  no-one will be listening)

Probably not but I will and that's why it has to be fixed.


The moves for the day are also obvious in terms of picking up the iMac and starting the recovery process but less obvious is "Don't Say Voila Like a Magic Trick" will be hovering in the background. My intention is to turn all knobs on all music devices to zero and do a recovery process with them as well.  Music from a video or so can belt through the P.A. speakers without distortion but playing the bass murders them all the time such that they overheat, distort and shut down.  Therefore, turn everything off and start with the bass in building the mix kit that goes through the looper.

A Boss RC-50 looper is obsolete but is still ostensibly functional.  The biggest problem is the level metering and it is abysmal at the level of the obvious metaphor.  It provides one little idiot light to monitor stereo output levels and gives nothing regarding inputs.

(Ed:  if it were easy, it wouldn't be a good trick)

Right you are, matey.  So it will be kicked, punched or stabbed until it learns obedience because it, like the computer, can defy me as they like but they will do my bidding.  The rule doesn't work worth a damn with people but it is supreme for devices that think they're intelligent.

There's nothing much to say when that kit finally works correctly except ... voila.

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