Never, Ever Give Up - Except Maybe Just This Once

I have wanted to add some audio to my website for some while and decided to bite the bullet and visit a very large music store here in Orlando. I also have developed an interest in Podcasting, I’m not sure yet how I can use it, maybe a weekly Coaching Podcast or something similar but I am keen to check it all out.

So I entered the store and was approached by a helpful assistant who took me to the right section in the shop. He then pointed out a Podcasting pack made by Samson. It was a little more than I wanted to spend at $180 but I was assured it had everything I could possibly need to do my own podcasts and not have them sound like I had a bag on my head.

At this point I told the assistant that most of my friends would rather let a half starved lunatic pit bull lose at their kids birthday party than me loose on anything technical, so it had to be for BEGINNERS. I was assured that as this was assembled specifically for non-techies that want to be able to run amok on the Web and that I would have no problem.

I hate it when somebody tells me I will have no problem. Whether its finding an address, fixing a car, assembling a piece of furniture or just frying an egg it always seems that one phrase is enough to have me embracing incompetence and looking foolish beyond belief in seconds flat. This was no different.

I have now had this thing 2 weeks. I have spent hours staring at it, which hasn’t worked at all well (I really do need to master telekinesis it would be such a time saver) and probably 3 or 4 hours actually playing with it. It plainly isn’t a Podcasting kit because other than the box, there is no mention on any of the other stuff about Podcasting whatsoever; the manufacturers have simply gathered all this stuff together to outwit (not difficult) gullible folk like me.

The software that came with it was obviously developed by an ex Pink Floyd sound engineer with more (virtual) knobs, buttons, slidey things, icons and buttons that in the cockpit of Concorde and about 100x more than I am ever likely to need. I really doubt I will ever have call for a drum map manager, an auto punch toggle, a loop explorer or want to bounce to clip! Not only is all this overwhelming, but I can’t even get it to work! Armed with the worst manual it has even been my displeasure to try and use and my trusty ‘Podcasting For Dummies’ I have got nowhere.

As a coach I often urge my clients not to give up but I am rejecting my own advice, taking the thing back and probably going to pay somebody that actual knows what an MBT Time Ruler Format is, to do it for me.

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