Re: who pays for blown up spkrs (mics, etc) in yer studio

[Raymond]

chris wrote
>curious. what algorithm does your studio use to determine if the
>studio or the engineer pays for the blown up stuff?

Contracts will have a statement in them about taking responsibility for any and
or all things to do with a session.
If you use no contract you cant blame anyone and its most likely up to who owns
the gear to pay for damage.

[Guitarboy]

In article >, Raymond
> wrote:

> chris wrote
> >curious. what algorithm does your studio use to determine if the
> >studio or the engineer pays for the blown up stuff?
>
> Contracts will have a statement in them about taking responsibility for any
> and
> or all things to do with a session.
> If you use no contract you cant blame anyone and its most likely up to who
> owns
> the gear to pay for damage.
>
One studio i used to work at had resistors hooked up between the amps
and the speakers (perhaps they were hooked up to light bulbs) the
louder you tried to turn up the sound (past a certain point) the
brighter the bulbs would get but the volume stayed the same. if you
wanted this disconnected you had to sign a contract taking full
responsibility for blowing the monitors. (this was only hooked up to
the bigs, not the ns-10's)

[mr c deckard]

thanks for the input -- i'm usually rather generous about such things,
but i'm going to find myself in the red very quickly if i continue. i
suppose the big question is where does the line get drawn between
routine repair and negligence -- although i suppose the answer is
probably in the type of gear and how it was used -- a pot going
scratchy is routine until i find out someone spilled their coffee on
the board.

best,
chris




> Contracts will have a statement in them about taking responsibility for any and
> or all things to do with a session.
> If you use no contract you cant blame anyone and its most likely up to who owns
> the gear to pay for damage.

[Scott Dorsey]

mr c deckard > wrote:
>thanks for the input -- i'm usually rather generous about such things,
>but i'm going to find myself in the red very quickly if i continue. i
>suppose the big question is where does the line get drawn between
>routine repair and negligence -- although i suppose the answer is
>probably in the type of gear and how it was used -- a pot going
>scratchy is routine until i find out someone spilled their coffee on
>the board.

Coffee in the board: big bill to customer.

Occasional blown diaphragms: the cost of doing business.

Regularly blown diaphragms with one customer: big bill to customer.

Regularly blown diaphragms with all customers: time to install limiters
--scott

--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Richard Kuschel]

>mr c deckard > wrote:
>>thanks for the input -- i'm usually rather generous about such things,
>>but i'm going to find myself in the red very quickly if i continue. i
>>suppose the big question is where does the line get drawn between
>>routine repair and negligence -- although i suppose the answer is
>>probably in the type of gear and how it was used -- a pot going
>>scratchy is routine until i find out someone spilled their coffee on
>>the board.
>
>Coffee in the board: big bill to customer.
>
>Occasional blown diaphragms: the cost of doing business.
>
>Regularly blown diaphragms with one customer: big bill to customer.
>
>Regularly blown diaphragms with all customers: time to install limiters
>--scott
>
>--
>"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
>
>
>
>
>

Some people are just abusive to equipment.

I had one pair of T20's broken by a guy who wanted to wear them over his cowboy
hat. (Absolutely no idea WHY he wanted to do this. )

Have had others that wanted to play the monitors at levels that were causing
the power amps to run into clipping.

One such client was doing that, playing poorly and never seemed to have the
money to pay for sessions. I told him to find another studio to abuse.

I have an old pair of Peavey International 3 ways that I would use for people
like this instead of the JBL 4430's if I had the space to put them in the
studio. ( they are 10 dB more effecient than the studio monitors and will
handle a lot more power, they just don't sound that great in that application.

Use is one thing and I can afford the upkeep on that. Abuse is something else
entirely.
Richard H. Kuschel
"I canna change the law of physics."-----Scotty