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Just for the record… it has to do with practicality.
the notches are spaced similar to a clock, but with the deadzone most potentiometers have, it doesn’t go a full 360 around, so they stop at 11. This makes for an intuitive scale with familiar spacing on the notches- even if it is entirely arbitrary.
Based off of my peripheral I really thought that deadzone was Saddam for a second
so they stop at 11
you mean 10, most amps stop at 10.
At the 11 o’clock position, I think they mean. That’s a bit arbitrary tho
That’s not the history of that thing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven
This is not at all the case.
Most potentiometers have a full rotation or 270°, sometimes up to 300°. By convention the mid-travel is at 12 o’clock. That would make the 0 around 7:30 and the 10 around 3:30.
I believe it’s mandatory to add jpeg when linking to that comic.
Title text too: Wow, that’s less than $200 per … uh … that’s a good deal!
The difference between engineering and sales engineering
I feel like the last one is a marketer, not a smart engineer.
Capitalist engineer.
Sales executive. Paid more than engineers, is substantially dumber.
Self employed and beyond comfortable, financially.
11 is one louder than 10!
No 11 is much less than 3,628,800
So it’s smart to scam people. Interesting take.
We live in a capitalist world, scamming is objectively how we base how successful and smart someone is.
Celebrating selfishness and deception is just that, no matter how warped the perception of a theoretical majority of people might be. Perpetuating such nonsense will only cause more harm in the future. It’s not a sign of good behaviour or even mental health to be well adapted to a broken system.
So yeah, not “smart”. Disgusting.
It said “smart”, not “morally right”.
It’s not a “take” it’s a joke
sigh even jokes communicate stuff; they’re especially powerful in normalizing things.
I’m aware people hate it when someone criticizes jokes. However when bad stuff gets normalized it’s necessary to point that out.
You’re a moron to think this is about scamming someone. The smart engineer realized he can offer a louder option but didn’t want to disturb the preset settings the customer is used to. If anything, not only is the engineer smart but empathetic towards how troublesome learning a new tool is like. Let me tell you it is not a problem that the volume is not standardized. Instead, it is nice to know that the customer can choose options he is familiar with AND now has a setting to go louder. Of course the much smarter way is to make the dial more analog input than a digital input. However, the digital dial will not move as easily when bumped. Trade-offs were made. For aesthetics and function. Yes I know some music nerds who like the dial more than a touch button.
Now don’t get me started with how they can sell it however they want. If it is louder than the product it is comparing against and the buyer likes it then it is not a scam, it was a fair trade.
/EndRant
Isn’t the joke that the smart engineer will change the labels on the knob since they don’t have any unit? That’s the scammy aspect. I don’t think OC finds the idea of selling a better amp immoral
My peavey modeling amp was very proud that it went up to 13! :}
6227020800 is definitely higher than 11.
Ahhh. The vypyr… I love everything about that stupid amp series.
For $2000? Is this comic from the 50s?
The smart engineer then buys a stock amp for $1000, 3D prints a dial that goes to 12, installs it, delivers it to Spïnäl Täp (I can never remember where the umlaut goes), and pockets his well-earned profit.
Some Peavey amps do go to 12
Nothing beats the original delivery
Yup anyone who as umlaut to an will buy anything for “cool factor”
This comment is like a New York Times daily game “which word is the typo?”
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Eh my amps scale is from 0 to 32 bit intiger limit. (it’s just as loud as the ones that go from 0 to 11)
40 years ago someone made a joke
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I pref my dials in base 16, my amp goes to 9F.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Wonder what that’d look like to a layman. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9… Awesome? Beastly? Crushing? Deafening? Ear-shattering? Fuck that’s loud?
Nurgus@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Mineis also base 16 and goes to 10. Which one is louder?
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Yours is one louder
Guilherme@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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