PEC are shit
this is a picture of me expressing rage over my senheiser mic which I bought from PEC and only worked for less than 12hours. it went down on the first day of filming and its still not fixed.
it went back to senheiser and still not working. PEC the company I bought it for are incredibly patronising in that 'oh your just a bunch of girlies you don't know what your doing' kind of way. they never returned our calls and suggested that my XLR's were just too cheap (they supplied them as part of the bundle so I guess they should know)
do male lo-budget filmmakers get that kind of brush off? I mean you take out a loan and a few hundred quid and three months later your having to hire your mates dictaphone to acquire sound... does it make sense?? but hey I guess the old boys need to get their bacon sarnie money from soemwhere..
god this is really ill-mannered and ranty but I'm just really fucked off...and much the poorer from having dealt with these guys... their shit mic is gonna cost us loads in ADR on the feature..I'd sue them but a) I can't be arsed b) I don't know how and c) I'd probably lose and everyone at PEC will laugh at me more than they do alredy... hmm
I feel much better now.
Richmond film services are lovely on the other hand and I will only get gear off them in the future... well unitll they think I'm stupid and tell me my XLR's are to cheap.
I think that blowing off steam helped..