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Originally Posted by hey_mavis  blood cloth |
That gets my vote for creepiest post at gearslutz. What a strange and indecipherable way to respond to an opinion. Maybe you mean 'blood clot' in a reference to the Jamaican slang "Bumba Clot"? That's my best guess...
Anyway, if you want to call people who talk about music in abstract terms names, you'll be shutting out a lot of greats like Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and many of the classical composers. I'm sure most of the time terms of color don't help, but I'm also sure that occasionally, when used properly, they can help. For example, if someone says, "I want the listener to feel that it's 3:00 at night on an empty street...the colors are mostly blue...I'm looking for an ominous vibe," that will help
some mixers. It paints a picture in the imagination and if it happens to be the right one for the song, then that will help the process in a way that talking about specific reverb, delay and compression settings won't. The frustration is that most of the time you're not hearing an artist like Joni Mitchel or a Miles Davis who has a real artistic vision, you're hearing someone who doesn't know what they want throw up abstractions in an effort to get to a fairly nebulous destination.