laws for audio engineers

[pucho812]

http://www.aes.org/sections/pnw/laws.htm ;D 8)

 

[jdbakker]

I strongly concur with Stamler's first law. EDIT: Welti's law likewise.

JDB
[I tend to phrase it as:

If the system doesn't work, it'll turn out to be a connector failure. If the problem cannot possibly be caused by a connector failure, it'll still turn out to be a connector failure.

Sometimes I'm forced to broaden connector to electromechanical component to make the law work. I've never needed to escalate beyond that]

 

[ruffrecords]

Reminds me of the old joke about the engineer, the physicist and the mathematician. There were all led into a room in the centre of which was a £50 note. They were told they could walk half the distance to the money and then they had to stop. Then they could walk half the remaining distance, stop and repeat the process until they reached the money.

The mathematician quickly worked out he would never get there so he left.

The physicist, who always worked to 5 decimal places, was still there a week later.

The engineer did three iterations, said 'That's close enough' and picked up the money.

Cheers

Ian

 

[pucho812]

I came up with one

pucho's law:  matter how many times you ask or tell him, the drummer will always play when you don't want him to and never play when you do.