Some inexperienced user didn't find your effin' sticky, and forgot to say "thank you". Big deal!....is this a forum for some elitists?...
All i was saying is, please be nice to the forum noobs, there was no intention to annoy anybody here i'd say. And the Tascam M12 is actually very sophisticated. Saying this as an former user of a Tascam 244, where you basically just had to plug in your instruments and go. Thank you.
@Up457
An internet forum dedicated to audio recording serves as a platform for enthusiasts, professionals, and beginners to discuss, share, and learn about audio recording techniques, equipment, software, and best practices. Its purposes include:
- Knowledge Sharing: Users exchange tips, tutorials, and solutions for recording, mixing, mastering, and editing audio.
- Gear Discussion: Members review and recommend microphones, interfaces, DAWs (Digital Audio Workstations), and other recording equipment.
- Problem Solving: Forums provide a space to troubleshoot technical issues, such as noise reduction, latency, or software bugs.
- Community Building: They foster connections among musicians, producers, sound engineers, and hobbyists with shared interests.
- Project Feedback: Users can share their work for constructive criticism and suggestions to improve their recordings.
- Industry Updates: Forums often feature discussions on new technologies, plugins, or trends in audio production.
This creates a collaborative environment to enhance skills, stay updated, and support creative audio projects.
As you wrote, this is sophisticated, professional level gear, and it demands a commensurate effort to learn how to use it effectively. We try hard to help new owners do that. I've been an active contributor here for 8 years and personally have spent thousands of volunteer hours trying to help people learn about audio engineering. But there's a limit.
It's unfortunate, but too many "new members" of late apparently are of the assumption that we're a free alternative to TASCAM Support or offer free instruction and training services on demand.
These types are only interested in receiving an immediate solution to their own particular immediate "problem". They then disappear until their next "problem"; giving nothing back to the community, to include adding to the knowledge base by letting us know if the advice provided solved their problem; or even taking time from their busy schedule to respond with a simple "thank you" or a "like" in acknowledgement of our efforts after reading our attempt to help them.
New members who give the assumptive impression their time is too valuable to waste reading the owner manual, reading the stickies, searching the forum, or providing feedback, convey to me that they consider their time more important than ours, and apparently think we are just here to make life easier for them by using
our valuable time to research things they can easily, and should be, researching themselves.
Theirs is an incorrect assumption, and those who make it will very likely be ignored should they return in the future. It's become our practice now to review prior posts before responding to such members.
