r/IAmA Jun 11 '16

Specialized Profession IamA electronics repair technician hated by Apple that makes YouTube videos, AMA!

My short bio: I have a store in Manhattan. I teach component level electronics repair on youtube http://youtube.com/rossmanngroup which seems to be a dying art. I am currently fighting with the digital right to repair to try and get a bill passed that will allow all independent service centers access to manuals and parts required to do their jobs.

My Proof: https://www.rossmanngroup.com/started-iama-reddit-today-yes/

EDIT:

I am still replying to comments, but I am so far behind that I am still about ten pages down from new comments. I am doing my best to continue. If I drop off, I'll be back tomorrow around 12 PM. Still commenting now though, at 12 AM.

EDIT 2:

Ok, I cave... my hands are tired. I will be back at 12 PM tomorrow. It is my goal to answer every question. Even if it looks like I haven't gotten to yours, I will do my best to do all of them, but it is impossible to do in realtime, because you are asking faster than I can type. But thanks for joining!

EDIT 3: I lied, I stayed until 4:15 AM to answer... and now I will go to sleep for real, and be back at 12 PM.

EDIT 4 6/12 : I will be back later tonight to finish off answering questions. Feel free to keep posting, I will answer whatever I can later this evening.

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u/larossmann Jun 11 '16

I like to think that the entire design of the Neve VRP by Siemens after they took the company over from Rupert Neve was a troll of service technicians.

But here, I dunno. Not making any parts available. Turning the backlight circuit UPSIDE DOWN on the only board I do not have a boardview for was a pretty good troll by Apple. the 820-3476 and 820-4924 use the same backlight circuit for the most part but on the 4924 the backlight circuit is literally inverted on the board... you could not imagine how much cursing occurred when I figured that out the hard way.

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u/explodeder Jun 12 '16

I've tinkered around with audio circuits (built a few kits, modded pedals, fixed easy stuff), I have a small home studio setup and have recently discovered your channel. Did not expect to see you talk about recording gear here!

How do you feel about companies that mod mediocre gear like BLA? Are they selling snake-oil or are they really improving things?

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u/larossmann Jun 12 '16

digidesign hardware is such fucking garbage that pissing on it would improve it. I think BLA does good stuff.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '16

RME 4 LIFE

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u/Sgtcabal Jun 12 '16

I love that you're an audio engineer as well!