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I miss the desert
Sep. 6th, 2007 10:11 amWork is still a flat run, but it's...uhm... well, at a water stop right now, I guess, to keep going with a dumb metaphor. I will feel much better once this event tomorrow is behind me. I'm honestly not looking forward to playing tomorrow (actually, that's not true, I'm happy to play, what I'm not looking forward to is hauling and setting up my gear and being social) but hopefully it will go well and wash out some of the ick of my show on the playa, which was kinda craptastic. Even though a lot of it was tech issues and not really my fault, it's hard not to be disappointed. At any rate, I'm really looking forward to a few days without worky stuff or music stuff and sleeping in as long as I want.
Related to my recent string of musical tech woes, right before I left I got the call from the repair shop. *sigh*
First they called to say they couldn't fix it, and asked my permission to have them send it to the factory for repairs, which I granted. Then, right before I left for the desert, they called and said that they finally got in touch with the factory and they don't *do* repairs, and that they found another shop in New Jersey that can (probably) fix it, but there's a $150 minimum. I already paid the $30 to EMI to give me an estimate, and with the $150 plus that plus shipping, I'm facing paying over half the price of what a new Ion would cost and I still don't have an estimate for what the actual repair cost will be. I didn't call them back before I left, and still don't know what I want to do. If it's not more than the $150, it's still cheaper than buying a new one. But if Alesis won't do factory repairs, it may be more worthwhile to just pick it up from EMI and try to part it out. I like the Ion, but I don't like it enough to have a costly once a year repair when it's supposed to be the reliable replacement for my vintage synth. I'm thinking about replacing it with a nice controller and investing in some VST synths instead, but I don't know. I do miss having more than 64 keys. Or I might just pick it up from EMI and research somewhere to send it on my own instead of parting it out- I'd be out my $30 but I could sit on it and decide after I recover financially from my trip. I don't know.
Thoughts, synth heads? Any of you know how to fix the A to D conversion in an Alesis Ion? Apparently that's where the problem is. thhhppppt.
Related to my recent string of musical tech woes, right before I left I got the call from the repair shop. *sigh*
First they called to say they couldn't fix it, and asked my permission to have them send it to the factory for repairs, which I granted. Then, right before I left for the desert, they called and said that they finally got in touch with the factory and they don't *do* repairs, and that they found another shop in New Jersey that can (probably) fix it, but there's a $150 minimum. I already paid the $30 to EMI to give me an estimate, and with the $150 plus that plus shipping, I'm facing paying over half the price of what a new Ion would cost and I still don't have an estimate for what the actual repair cost will be. I didn't call them back before I left, and still don't know what I want to do. If it's not more than the $150, it's still cheaper than buying a new one. But if Alesis won't do factory repairs, it may be more worthwhile to just pick it up from EMI and try to part it out. I like the Ion, but I don't like it enough to have a costly once a year repair when it's supposed to be the reliable replacement for my vintage synth. I'm thinking about replacing it with a nice controller and investing in some VST synths instead, but I don't know. I do miss having more than 64 keys. Or I might just pick it up from EMI and research somewhere to send it on my own instead of parting it out- I'd be out my $30 but I could sit on it and decide after I recover financially from my trip. I don't know.
Thoughts, synth heads? Any of you know how to fix the A to D conversion in an Alesis Ion? Apparently that's where the problem is. thhhppppt.
