Everyone has a different personality. I have a bit of lawyer in me and I enjoy stating and building a case.
Here lately, people are getting their feathers in a ruffle when anyone says anything about a piece of gear they don't own.
Why?
My thought is they think that if you haven't used a piece, you can't possibly know what it is like.
- Do you have to have a Neve to know it is colored?
- Do you have to have a distressor to know it can spank?
- Do you have to own a Daking to know it is a Trident flavored pre?
- Do you have to have an Avant in your hand to know it is a rebranded mic and that you can get it for half the cost?
- Do you have to own an SM7 to tell someone that it is well respected and used on countless albums?
- Why do manufacturers post clips of their equipment in usage? Is it to encourage you to buy it based on the clip?
- Why do people do reviews? Is it to encourage you to buy a piece of gear they like?
- Why do we have sites like this? If you can never share the information given by a fellow musician or engineer then what is the point?
- If you read an honest statement by another individual, are you forbidden to tell someone what you heard?
There is nothing inherently wrong with good reporting. Society as a whole
depends on it. People don't have to be murdered to report a murder. People
don't have to be a stock broker to report that the economy changed world-wide.
You don't even have to be an athlete to announce a sporting event on a
popular station.
Yet come here and say anything about someone's gear and not own it... and people get
upset. We are getting way to sensitive here and we need to get
over it.
If someone wants to report on their usage, by all means they should. If someone
wants to report what they heard in a clip, what they saw another user post or
what they were told, then again, by all means they should if they do so accurately.
If that is wrong to do so, then this site needs to shut down. NO more
shootouts. NO more eval clips. Manufactures need to cease the production of all
media relating to their product. Resellers need to stop the gear evals, need to
stop making review propaganda videos because it is wrong for us to use any of
their efforts, media, or information in making an informed decision. We are simply
supposed to call sweetwater and order piece after piece for evaluation and THEN
only THEN......... are we allowed to think.
Discuss intelligently, flame or rant. You are what you choose.
Don't take me too seriously
humbly
Rob
PS. Feel free to put me on ignore. It won't hurt my feelings.
Edited: avoiding inflammatory language.