sweetbeats
Reel deep thoughts...
I'm reading through a series of articles forwarded to me by Rick Chinn of Uneeda Audio written by Steve Dove on "Designing a Professional Mixing Console". This series was originally published in Studio Sound from 1980 to '81. As I pass a 2000th post milestone I thought to put up an excerpt from one of the articles discussing opamps; the title subheaded "Friend or Foe?"......that debate continues on today on many fronts...opamps vs. discreet electronics, Protools vs. everybody else, analog vs. digital...seriously don't want to go there again but Steve Dove is very objective about the opamp issue and he opens the article with some words that really made me think about my own past and current behavior and mindset about what's good/better/best/necessary/garbage/blahblahblah, and so many of my opinions are based on what others say, not my own hands-on experience.
So this is really a confession of sorts and reminder to myself that my own experiences and results with what I have on-hand mean more at that moment than all the puffy-worded absolutes of others...our culture and society is really quick these days to jump to the next thing and usually it is somebody in marketing that is hoping you'll react that way, and is typically getting paid based on your response. So here's to the journey "backwards" against the flow of the market to something that transcends "fashion".
Steve Dove writes in the November 1980 edition of Studio Sound:
"Fashions change, the laws of physics don't. A simple and irrefutable statement, one would think. Unfortunately this industry, like most of the others which survive off the entertainment media, is populated with large numbers of persons who persistently refuse to believe it. Such are the individuals who are responsible for sweeping condemnations based on statements that tickle the sense of plausability rather than sufficient breadth of comprehension and depth of knowledge to substantiate or explain them. So many of these proclamations are made for political and commercial reasons, totally unrelated to actual technological facts.
Such are the statements from which fashions are born - inertia sweeping them forward until the original criticisms have been well laid to rest but the engendered antipathy lingers on irrationally, supported dim-wittedly by those similarly incapable of substantiating their own opinions. Sadly, in an industry where abstract notions are a stock-in-trade and everybody has a pair of ears it is quite difficult to make clarifying statements based on fact - someone somewhere will always be at hand to propose yet another set of glazed-eyed contradictory waffle."
And I am now at risk of forming yet another set of opinions about opinions based on this excerpt.
So this is really a confession of sorts and reminder to myself that my own experiences and results with what I have on-hand mean more at that moment than all the puffy-worded absolutes of others...our culture and society is really quick these days to jump to the next thing and usually it is somebody in marketing that is hoping you'll react that way, and is typically getting paid based on your response. So here's to the journey "backwards" against the flow of the market to something that transcends "fashion".
Steve Dove writes in the November 1980 edition of Studio Sound:
"Fashions change, the laws of physics don't. A simple and irrefutable statement, one would think. Unfortunately this industry, like most of the others which survive off the entertainment media, is populated with large numbers of persons who persistently refuse to believe it. Such are the individuals who are responsible for sweeping condemnations based on statements that tickle the sense of plausability rather than sufficient breadth of comprehension and depth of knowledge to substantiate or explain them. So many of these proclamations are made for political and commercial reasons, totally unrelated to actual technological facts.
Such are the statements from which fashions are born - inertia sweeping them forward until the original criticisms have been well laid to rest but the engendered antipathy lingers on irrationally, supported dim-wittedly by those similarly incapable of substantiating their own opinions. Sadly, in an industry where abstract notions are a stock-in-trade and everybody has a pair of ears it is quite difficult to make clarifying statements based on fact - someone somewhere will always be at hand to propose yet another set of glazed-eyed contradictory waffle."
And I am now at risk of forming yet another set of opinions about opinions based on this excerpt.