Every time I buy something from them the salesperson calls me for months asking if there is anything they can do for me. When you're all the way at one end of the scale, there's only one way to go.Whether you consider it customer service or sales, there is at least one way things could improve. It's essentially what they're selling, the gear is the same stuff that I can get on Amazon for the same price. It's hard to imagine that Sweetwater customer service could improve. Chuck's retirement, gotta happen sometime. You have a music store with a reputation of being upfront, honest and helpful becoming exclusive dealer (well, along with Amazon) of a company known for cheap products and blatantly copying other companies designs. For me, the Behringer deal was really strange.
I honestly don't take this news to be as big as the Behringer deal. I assumed it was either rumor or the deal had fallen through. We talked about it here at that time, then the news went away. Someone mentioned earlier that this came out months ago. Why not retire in time to enjoy it? And what better time to sell than after they hit number one. He has worked hard over the years and built an empire. It's hard to build a brilliant business and still be willing to cede control of it in a timely, orderly fashion. Most founders have great difficulty executing plans for leadership continuity. How old is Chuck? If he is in his fifties or sixties, well done. It's cheap and meaningless, and its continuity would imply that nothing has changed (regardless of whether you're paying more and getting poorer service). That's the kind of thing that could easily change. But it's nice to have someone consistent to deal with who can occasionally make price adjustments based on the fact that you've bought from them in the past. I don't buy a ton of equipment, and I don't buy it all from Sweetwater. Those groups are interested in profit (in particular, short-term profit), and anything that decreases profit is going to be scrutinized. I've never heard of an example of a company that went public or was bought by venture capitalists or investment groups that improved in terms of treatment of employees or customers. I'm with those who don't think this will be good for customers and employees in the long run (and probably starting in the near future). I look at a bunch of music sites daily and hadn't heard anything about this until I saw this video a couple days ago. Probably because no one had heard about it until now.
#Keyscape sweetwater mac#
Its clearly you another butthurt victim, its in the video Andy Mac said 4 to 6 weeks for the X and 2 weeks for the Live."Don't know why people are getting their panties up in a bunch right now" Greavous420 wrote: Ill-Green wrote:Live in 2 weeks for the UK I think, Andertons are the Sweetwater there, but for the US might be a little longer.I think. So you take the word of the guy who makes expansion packs for it and does demos for clip launching. Remember you've been told that they were on a boat at one point by another Akai employee who actually is a large part of developing the software, Pete Goodlife. If they were that big they would open a shop up north!Īlso, why do you once again take another estimated date and then make up an arbitrary lower timescale guesstimate causing more people to shit the bed in 2 weeks when it hasn't arrived yet. Andertons are just the best of the smaller retailers so people think they are bigger due to internet presence etc. PMT, Dawsons, Production room to name a few that deal with more than one city in the country and so are much closer to being a big national retailer. They are a great family run company to start with and also they only have a single shop location. Ill-Green wrote:Live in 2 weeks for the UK I think, Andertons are the Sweetwater there, but for the US might be a little longer.I think.Īndertons are far from the Sweetwater over here. I'm bout to dive into Keyscape, dam thing is doper than dope! DAmmmmmm Eric Persing is a master of sound I know Roland hate he left them LOL That's a bad ass machine! Akai do it right they are about to win! I eliminates the laptop, that is so dope, and I know I will do more on that Live now. I will bet anyone those XY effects are dope also.
#Keyscape sweetwater plus#
Dudes are dumb in GS they tried to say since I didn't have the Live I can't say the converters are good, dumb asses! First hand sources like Masada and Machine Masters and Andy say the converters are dope plus my dam ears can tell they are dope. Masada said the converters on the Live is nice, and the X sounds dope too. Did you see how Andy was moving those chops around with his fingers? Oh my gawd! man I don't wanna hear nothing about Push 2 no more! That ish sound clear and its over monitors its not recorded and mixed where it will sound even better.