Ep. 393: "A Little Grace"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
The Problem: John wants to set it and forget it.
(Recorded on Monday, August 3, 2020.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:06.5 | Hi, John. |
| 0:10.0 | Merlin, man. |
| 0:11.9 | Oh, John. |
| 0:19.5 | I'm twiddling a lot of knobs here. Oh, yeah? What are you trying to, you're trying to dial it in? Well, you know, I got, I got my DA, my digital audio, what's it? Right, you're what's it? Yeah, and it's not, I think I, I tried, I tried to get a cute with it and, and now, uh, I'm paying for it. |
| 0:39.8 | Seems like you're a little gamey. Yeah, a little game state. Well, I'm a little game. Let me turn it down. Hang on. All right. Is that better? Any difference? That's nice. Is it? No, that's nice. Yeah. I'm, I don't know what. peeking a little bit you're now now i am no no you were you were just a little bit up there |
| 0:55.7 | toward the your tough john i'm out of my depth i mean i'm going to beck i'm I don't know what. You're peeking a little bit. Now I am? No, no, you were. |
| 0:54.5 | You were just a little bit up there toward the, you're tough, John, I'm out of my depth. I'm out of my depth here. I could really use the help. I use this device that's got a lot of dip switches. Oh, really? You were you dealing with dip switches? Well, you know, I love a dip switch. Yeah. You know, if I had a, if I had a car that had a bunch of dip switches in it, I'd just be flipping them all the time. |
| 1:14.4 | But, you know, I love a dip switch. Yeah. You know, if I had a, if I had a car that had a bunch of |
| 1:11.8 | dip switches in it, I'd just be flipping them all the time. But, you know, any, any machine that's |
| 1:16.6 | got a switch on it, uh, rather than like a menu, I'd, I'd rather hit a switch any day than I would |
| 1:24.5 | pull down a menu. Here's the, here's the thing you got to know about me is I get things. |
| 1:30.9 | This is also in my very short career in development. |
| 1:35.9 | I had a practice that where I would keep working on it until it wasn't obviously broken. |
| 1:42.6 | So I do that with my DAW as well, which is I get it into some kind of a relatively |
| 1:47.4 | dependable state, and then I try not touch it. |
| 1:50.9 | You're a fiddler. |
| 1:51.6 | You'll fiddle with dip switches. |
| 1:52.6 | You'll sit there with the manual and do the dip switches. |
| 1:55.4 | No, no, no, no. |
| 1:56.9 | I would rather set it and forget it. |
| 1:58.6 | Like in all things in life, I want to set it and forget it. |
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