u/beetsbears328

Hi,

I run a small localization team at a b2b software company. So far, we've managed to personally see after all the content in our core language pair + farm out 2 other languages to an LSP with our customers paying for it. That has been going on for 2-3 years now.

However, our Sales/CS teams have been putting pressure on us to just implement some garbage Claude implementation so we can offer languages where our customers in these markets don't want to pay for localization. In fact, a high-ranking person from one of those teams just created a respective merge request and told us to implement it, which caused a whole thing. We didn't budge. We met with him and he (someone from a scientific field with no language background) told three translators/localization managers and a technical writer that our work was pretty much low-stakes and AI has gotten so good that we might as well just do it, followed by a bunch of AI cultist nonsense. I know, many of us have heard these kinds of takes before.

Obviously, the burden to come up with a respective process and QA mechanism would be fully on us in this case and of course they haven't thought any of that through and frankly don't care. I'm not even staunchly opposed to AI and think there are intelligent implementations (e. g. review bots based on terminology databases and styleguides), but I'm just fed up with the ignorance.

Anyway, my boss at least pushed back toward the guy and they at least agreed that other departments need to come to us with an issue and requirements so we can see what we want to do about it. So far so good, but when I just met with him, he basically told me about how we need to be open to how AI "can improve our processes" and then went on to suggest a bunch of implementations that would have no QA whatsoever and possible processes that were just as terrible as what that first guy suggested.

Our next steps are to have workshops on strategy and where we want our quality standards to be, which is fine, but honestly, having known my boss for over 5 years, this feels like the beginning of the end. I'm trying to stay open but it sucks because up until recently, my company always seemed like one of the more reasonable ones that don't get mindlessly caught up in this stupid movement. If I leave, I don't think I'll get a more open-minded boss or org than my current one.

Would love some advice on how to deal with this kind of thing.

Hi everyone,

I've been eyeing the TRM-222 for a good while before finally pulling the trigger back in January. The gratification was pretty delayed as Musicstore hit me with 6 weeks delivery time right off the bat. I agreed anyway, as it's my local store and I wanted to be able to just bring it in, should something be wrong.

Sound

Setup: Vestax PDX-2000, Vestax PDX-2300, 2x Ortofon Concord DJ, 2x Yamaha HS-7

The mixer sounds pretty good imo. So far, I used the Phono and Line input. I haven't gotten around to the timecode use case yet, mainly because I don't have a DVS interface and had a rekordbox-integrated mixer before. If anyone wants to get the mixer to use with a DVS, you should understand that the timecode input doesn't have integrated timecode capabilities, but is rather just optimized for use with a DVS interface.

My speakers are known to not have the strongest low-end, but are pretty truthful to what is or isn't in a given song. The mixer accentuates that imo. It doesn't add heft in the low-end but does give everything a very warmer and fuller tone than my DJM-450 did, at least to my ears.

Functionality

As most people will say, this mixer is absolute bang for your buck at this price point and I agree. You've got a 3-band EQ and a chunky 3-band master isolator, which achieve a full kill. It even has a HP/LP filter, however with the limitation that it's only one filter knob for both channels (which you can engage on one or both of them). I am still getting used to the filter, as I always preferred Pioneer's approach to filters over this HP/LP logic that e. g. Allen & Heath always uses too. Probably a matter of preference though.
As someone who comes from Hip Hop, the crossfader is of great comfort and doesn't force me into a tradeoff. The send/return is pretty cool to have, as I definitely wanna get a space echo or something similar at some point. I haven't used it yet, but the booth function is a pretty cool plus if I ever take the mixer to play out somewhere. Also love that V/U meter!

However, I think I still need to figure out how to best balance master, channel gain and large rotary fader to get the best sound out of it while not hitting the limits of my HS-7s.

Handling

The knobs feel nice and sleek, not cheap. The resistance is pretty good, making them not fly around, so that you can adjust frequencies on a granular level without immediately going too far. In terms of mixing, I immediately started learning new ways to blend, which is very fun.

Build quality

This mixer was heavily advertised as having very high-quality components; especially the knobs. However, the first unit I received had wrong knob placement. I. e. the snap point of the knobs, where they were meant to "click into place" at the 12 o'clock position, was off in 3 or 4 knobs. That started to bother me, as it's a new mixer and I'd been looking forward to it for a while. I brought it in and they swapped it out immediately. The new mixer didn't have that issue, but the paint on two of the knobs started to chip a little quite quickly. I'm not gonna go and have it swapped again, but it is a shame. Then again, having played on other rotary mixers in the lower price segment, I realize that, at this price point, there's always a tradeoff. Might be something to keep in mind for the perfectionists among us.

Conclusion

I think I still have some work to do in terms of getting to know the mixer and its intricacies. But overall, I'm pretty happy. However, I can imagine trading up at some point, as the build quality leaves something to be desired and I can imagine the sound could still be better. For the money I spent, this is likely the best rotary around and for the time being, I'm having a lot of fun just twisting knobs and levelling up my mixing.

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