Owner's manuals

[Indiana Mike]

I do , for my gear anyway.

Some of the manuals I use at work are 900 + pages and could be used as a torture device if one could force reading. Since I know the feild I work in rather well I use them as reference manuals and never read them front to back.

 

[IvanMike]

i think the people who don't read the owner's manual are the very same ones who get really quiet if you put a chart in front of them......................

 

[greenboy]

Musicians are probably the reason companies don't spend more money in the direction of writing better manuals. Why provide techie stuff like real specs that an engineer could actually reference? Why provide explanations of how to work this or that when the internet can do the job, right or wrong? Why bother when they don't read it and when they do they get it wrong anyway? Why spend a dime more than you have to when bottom-line pricing is already affecting one's company?

That said, I wish I could thank every company that ever put out a great informative-on-every-level manual. I learned a lot there, and not just for that particular piece of gear. Some companies really cared enough to explain every feature and give insight and provide real useful specs and not just marketing ones.

I guess a heartfelt thanks was given though. I often bought more gear from them.