"Keith G" wrote in message

"Iain Churches" wrote in message
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Two things here.

It is difficult for our amateur church recordist to
come to terms with the fact that there are people
out there who do the job professionally (with formal
training and a lifetime of experience far greater than
his own) and that his church activities are worlds away
from "real" professional commercial recording.

Iain is impossible to convince that volunteer work is only part of what I do
in professional audio.

I think it's to Arny's credit that he has so steadfastly
'walked the walk' as he puts it for so long as a
volunteer but it's my experience in life that a ton of
'volunteer' doesn't make an ounce of the real thing in
the professional world.

The volunteer work hasn't worked against me except on audio conferences
where people often spew mounds of BS, anyway.

Mind you, that said in light of recent events, my fairly
low opinion of even well-meaning 'experts' has only been
reinforced!


The other point is that it must be very difficult indeed
to take part in a British (or Australian) group, while having no
concept of their humour.

Americans haven't made millionaires out of certain British comedians because
they don't get British humor.

In all probabilty, Arny could not see that I was pulling his chain re
Roland/Bosendorfer/Walmart.

As usual Iain, you were just being as objectionable as possible.

Over on the Oz group, they had him running round in circles,

LOL! The Oz group had their hands full simply keeping the group alive.

and on RAO

A group that managed to largely talk themselves out of existence. Iain
clearly has no idea what it was like in its glory days.

the excellent (and *very* English) John Atkinson,
eloquent, intellectual, talented producer, fine
musician, skilled engineer, respected journalist and

More like: ...widely reviled journalist and apologist for a wide variety of
pseudo science for fun and quite a bit of profit...

magazine editor, had Arny changing between dunce and clown cap with
remarkable rapidity.

All figments of Iain's imagination.