I plugged the last wire into the the Behringer U-Phoria U22 audio interface unit. It was on the cusp of providing high quality audio to my YouTube video!
I had recently discovered YouTube’s ability to record video and share it with friends or to view for training purposes . . there were some provisos, no use of copyrighted material, no pornographic material, etc. Not a problem! So I did my first video . . . to the screeching of unimaginably bad audio.
That’s where the U-Phoria U22 came in. It had an interface into my computer and would be so simple to set up that even a two-year old could do it. Well, that’s what it said in the advertising! At worst, I would have a cushion of 70 years of experience!
So, I plugged it in. OMG. The sound was still terrible!! I tried everything that my 70 additional years of experience made available to my aging brain. Nothing.
I was in the belly of the beast. Couldn’t go forward, and I couldn’t go back!
For a moment I toyed with the idea that my guitar playing had taken a horrible turn because of reincarnated hands from rap artists sewed onto my hands while I slept last night. Maybe.
Then I realized that I was using channel 2 instead of channel 1. Saperlipopette! That was it!
I emerged from the belly of the beast one more time. Unscathed. Triumphant.
But, in the back of my mind I knew I had just dodged another bullet . . and that one day the belly of the beast, which was always lurking in the shadows, waiting for a chance to spring on an unsuspecting me, was going to have me for lunch.