What are your gear prejudices? You've all got em'.

[htieksppircs]

Originally Posted by AllAboutTone

Lets see I have 600.00 invested in PT, Overpriced ? WTF are you talking about, unless you are talking about the HD rigs that you really don't need.

Neumann Mics <<< Overpriced ?, I have 2k in both of my U87....BS again....

Now on the other hand any kind of plugs are overpriced, I don't like em, don't use them either.

Some of your stuff makes sense but not the PT..

I think I qualified my statement about Pro Tolls in the preamble, by saying some of this gear is among the best you can buy. I'm aware of the quality of Pro Tools. However:
1. Digidesign makes gear that no one else can interface with, whether it's HD or LE, it's exclusive to Digi.
2. You pay twice or three times as much for the same plug in for Pro tools as you would pay for Audio Unit's, or VST. Why?
3. Apogee converters smoke protools for less money.
4.One can do anything on Digital Performer, Logic and several other DAWs that you can do on Pro tools but to hear the Pro tools guys tell it, nothing else exists.
5. And Finally, it's just an attitude thing. Digi has an attitude and I don't like it.

[AndyKyp]

My turn........

1. Pro Tools control surfaces (it"s funny' there meant to give you that realism of using a desk, but they slow my whole workflow down)

2. Bose

3. Over the top graphic designs on plugs ( Ohm-force, Stillwell, and Audio Damage come to mind)

4. Euphonix CS3000

5. Waves (There plugs are excellent, but there attitude stinks. Such a shame)

6. Logics "Space Designer" and IR's that are standard with the plug

[Soundman12]

1. Pro Tools- I get the same quality recording using my Cubase 5 and my MOTU. Maybe it's not Pro Tools itself that I dislike. Maybe it's the people that won't use anything else and when you ask why, they say "because pro tools is the best" with no other knowledge to back it up. Don't get me wrong, I use pro tools, cubase, and logic(depending on the project) and Pro tools is great. Just dont tell me its the best just because it says pro tools.

2. Auto-Tune. To all the kids that want to sound like T-Pain- It's been done many many many times before T-Pain came around!

3. The tag team of the SM57 and SM58. Sure, they are built like tanks but they haven't changed since the 70's. Every other major company in the market have come out with their version and surpassed it both in physical quality and most importantly- sound quality and within 10-20 dollars of the Shures! Key examples: SM57- see Audix I5. SM58- See Samson Q7 or EV ND767.

4. Behringer. If it says Behringer anywhere on it, stay away.

[KungFuLio]

High End Gripes-

I never wrapped my head around the AEA84 and the UAD610.

Good mic and pre by most accounts, just never liked 'em.


on the good side...
If I'm gonna go tube pre it's a manley, if a ribbon AEA44, RCA77, Royer 121 of SF1 depending on the app, Coles4038, Beyer 160 good stuff all of it!

[Dean Roddey]

Originally Posted by Soundman12

4. Behringer. If it says Behringer anywhere on it, stay away.

Everyone gets lucky once in a while. From what I've been reading, their V-Verb and Truth monitors are actually pretty good value for the money, though not necessarily built like tanks.

[Jim Williams]

Originally Posted by Soundman12

3. The tag team of the SM57 and SM58. Sure, they are built like tanks but they haven't changed since the 70's.

They have changed. Compare a NOS Unidyne III to a Juarez, Mexico version. Not the same. New models have a limited top end, a weak low end and a nasal mid range. The IL made Unidyne III's have an almost condensor quality in comparison.

Unidyne III's are collector's items now days. Mexican 57's are a good hammer substitute.

Jim Williams
Audio Upgrades

[My Tiny Circus]

Anything recommended by Gearslutz, they're either trying to sell it to you or rationalize their own buying mistakes.

...but on more serious note...

PCs, MicroSoft and ProTools. These really should work better together by now. My next PC will be an Apple Mac pro. The length of the PC setup advice posts is a clue that something's not right. Why should I care what chipset is being used ?

The only thing that causes me more unhappiness in the studio is musicians, everything else is good.

[viewingstuff]

Originally Posted by bitman

I'm so low end I'll just say:

Realistic Gear - Only when necessary.

word

[spiketronic]

MarkBass speaker cabs. Same ugly yellow speakercones as KRK. "Hey Mark, I'm a BASS player, man. If I wanted to stand out on stage I'd get a buttload of tats, wear a wife beater and play a Jackson Dinky Reverse with my teeth thru a 5 foot pedalboard!"

[StratSvante]

The AKG d112, Yeah the beta 52 is not perfect but to me, the AKG just does not sound good!

[Subversounds]

1. Protools LE and MP. Regular user but the user interface is totally unfriendly, seems like designed in 1998, no PDC... I use it almost everyday and its a piece of crap. I would give a try on PDHD thou, just to bash it a later. haha

2. M-Audio. Toys.

3. Sony Acid. No matter how good it got, its a crap for me.

4. MXL. Used, hated.

5. My old bad mechanical metronome. It gets out of tempo!!

6. Anything digital emulating analog. Come on, i miss the days where digital prouds itself of being digital, when fine delays and digital reverbs came out.

7. Everything from Waves. Overpriced, not so good sounding.

8. Apple stuff and the 'apple way of life'.

9. Green Automobiles. Sure 2 tons of steel, plastic, oil-based fibers, is green. The only green transportations are bicycles and carts/wagons.

10. Did i say Maudio?

Man i hate so much things.

[jojamba]

amazing how most people will write down Pro-Tools -

there's a reason people write Pro Tools - no one wants to say the truth about that horrible and overpriced DAW - its not the best DAW - pro tools users claim that - shoot! i came from pro tools - pro tools people are biased and dont try anything else - thats why they assume its the best -

sooooo many people leaving PT nowadays - they are a money making machine who have forgotten the very people that use their software - unbelievable - i just cant stand their whole business philosophy and i hope for the betterment of the music industry that they just either get better or go away!


P_R_O T_O_O_L_S - SUCKS!

its finicky,
you cant pick your converters,
unstable,
just because the old studios have it everybody thinks its the ultimate DAW,

[Subversounds]

Originally Posted by Greener

Not being able to find a recording studio that will cut direct to disc. No one owns a lathe and those who do are all set up for techno dicks who create in digital anyways...

**** digital. I can do it real time, analogue chain, let me prove it. :P

Dont know if its direct to disc, but this guy (Ricardo Garcia - MagicMaster) do master to vinyl and work with some vinyl makers.

[Jay-]

I-phones and when I see an I-phone the thought of taking it from the owner and smashing it is overwhelming.

[Dean Roddey]

Originally Posted by Jay-

I-phones and when I see an I-phone the thought of taking it from the owner and smashing it is overwhelming.

That's one I might be able to get behind. It cracks me up to see things like the Apple slogan "Think Different", which I guess you do by buying the exact same phone and music player as everyone else.

[kurfu]

Originally Posted by htieksppircs

Basses with 8, 12, 24 strings. Just play Bass O.K. Fender nailed it in about 1962.

[Jim Williams]

Originally Posted by htieksppircs

Basses with 8, 12, 24 strings. Just play Bass O.K. Fender nailed it in about 1962.

You would love my buddy Garry. He can play the damm thing. Proof it's the indian, not the arrow...
Garry Goodman

I also love a low B bass. It's an extention of technology. Original bass fiddle makers would have used a lower string if the body would have amplified it. They were interested in lower registers for compositions. This is why you find 16' stops on larger pipe organs. Electric bass manufacturers use the low B because they now have speakers that can reproduce it, that was not possible in the 1950's.
Fender introduced the 5 string bass in the later 1960's. It was small, short scaled but did not have a low B string.

Jim Williams
Audio Upgrades

[toneguru]

How bout guitar amps with lots of knobs on them. It seems the more knobs the worse the sound.

Just give me one volume knob and one tone knob and get the rest of the junk out of the way.

Also...

The huge guitar racks filled with IC's, and who knows what else. By the time the poor little guitar signal comes out the other end it sounds akin to a 2 inch 8 track turned into a DAT tape.

Stage plots that are missing extra players or have inputs on them that you will not actually need cause " we no longer have the sax and the drummer anymore". Great, thanks for faxing the stage plot early so I could have things right for you on arrival.

Rack gear that does it all like the Finalizer in the 90's or nowadays the all in one mic pre-amp/EQ/AD converter.

DOH!

[andrewenson]

Originally Posted by htieksppircs

Genelec: So what! My ADAMs smoke 'em for half the price.

Neumann: Again overpriced and overrated. Neumann is responsible for some of the best mics of all time. And they still make some of them. I guess I just have a problem with people who refuse to stand in front of anything else. Rubs me the wrong way.

Martin Guitars. Martin practically invented guitars and still makes some of the finest instruments in the world. To my ear they're kind of dull, I'm a Taylor man. Then there's the headstock...too plain, lacks any kind of style at all.

i love the focal twins :D

the only mic i like from neumann (not vintage) is the m147. idc what people say about it. i love it. everything else.... bleh. i havent used more than..... 3 vintage neumanns. so i cant comment on them

SERIOUSLY! martin charges way too much for some of their guitars. i love my j185ce, but i'm hoping to get a taylor soon.

[Hxd Ped]

I don't like Apple. They need to get over themselves. They are no better then a Windows PC. If they're so much better why is my friend having issues with his? The public needs to get over the Apple mystique, also.

As a bass player of 25 years, I don't like Fender basses. There's nothing wrong with them, I just don't like how they play. I think it's the neck.


I tend to avoid things that other people tell me I "have to" use. Nine times out of ten they're only telling you that because someone else told them the same thing. It may very well be better, but I'm not going to believe your word on it; I need to try it myself. I also tend to use things that other people tell me to not use. I was told by many people "don't use Reason!" I now use Reason frequently because I made a point of learning how to use it and now know how to get what I want out of it easier and with better results then other people do with things that are "better". I have found that many of Reason's detractors don't know how to use it.

I'm done now.

[Oscar G. Hinde]

-Protools LE and Mboxes: useless and overpriced.

-Behringer crap: except for some surprising pieces.

-Roland workstation keyboards: This one is completely irrational since I know the Fantom G is incredible. I just have a subconcious association between the words "roland" and "camp".

-Mac computers: didn't start out as hatred, just as indifference. I worked extensively on them, pushed them and found they failed as much as my Citriq home PC. Then everybody turned them into a stupid fad where if you don't have one you are unproffesional. Some idiots go as far as saying they won't work with you if you don't have a Mac. Now I hate them.

[Duardo]

If they're so much better why is my friend having issues with his?

I don't think they're "so much better" myself, but the fact that your friend is having issues with his may have more to do with your friend than the computer itself.

Or it may well be the computer...it happens to all of them.

[Oscar G. Hinde]

Originally Posted by Duardo

I don't think they're "so much better" myself, but the fact that your friend is having issues with his may have more to do with your friend than the computer itself.

Or it may well be the computer...it happens to all of them.

In my experience computers that are well looked after and treated as profesional tools rather than leisure comodities don't fail much at all, wether they are mac or pc.

[robd7.3]

Crate
Ibenhad (ibenez)
Peavey
Mbox
Reason
Beringher
Subs in a studio
DW way overpriced
as well as PRS
Modeling amps
Ovation

[Halloween]

I don't like Black Gear.

[Darwin James]

I've recorded an entire album (one of my early works) that sold in stores, in motel rooms. I'm not above using anything.

[dubmafia]

Originally Posted by Friedemann

Logic. Ever since I needed 20 minutes (!!) to create an empty audio track and rout it to an input I never touched this piece of software sh*t again.

Most likely: Interface not selected. Its not logics fault. RTFM.