For your information ...

PaulBrewer

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/395552-impressions-gearslutz-newbie.html

The opposite of everything in the above post can also be true....

woodsdenis

PaulBrewer wrote: »

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/395552-impressions-gearslutz-newbie.html

The opposite of everything in the above post can also be true....

Very funny. How did we evaluate gear before the Internet?

kfoltman

Ha!

Now, when it was conclusively decided that practically all available gear is utter sh*te, we can safely go back to producing great music using our all-[insert the forbidden B-word here] setups!

(the precise meaning of "great music" may vary etc.)

Great thread

dav nagle

Classic post from that guy!



When your buying equipment it is certainly nice to read other users experience, it all adds to the fun.

splitrmx

woodsdenis wrote: »

Very funny. How did we evaluate gear before the Internet?

I think people used to actually try it out for themselves first in the past. Modern communications technology has made that obsolete though!

PaulBrewer

splitrmx wrote: »

I think people used to actually try it out for themselves first in the past. Modern communications technology has made that obsolete though!

No - that's the way I still work, hand it out to try.

However there are some operators who do exploit the 'well everyone says it so it must be right' sheepness of the great unwashed.

Those Event Opal Monitor claims are raising my eyebrows at the moment !

studiorat

I also tend to agree with the observation that anything with 500 in the name is pretty darn cool.

PaulBrewer

And that song '500 Miles' ....

trackmixstudio

I saw that thread a while ago. Very funny.