Harmony Central

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How do you like the reviews on Harmony Central?

  • Never used it.

    Votes: 6 18.8%

  • I love Harmony Central (now be honest)

    Votes: 19 59.4%

  • FUCK HARMONY CENTRAL!!!!!!!

    Votes: 6 18.8%

  • I post there to fool unsuspecting readers......hehehehe.........

    Votes: 1 3.1%
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What is everyones opinion on the Harmony Central reviews?

Feel free to express any thoughts on the subject.
 
I find them to be quite useful.

The database is huge. Some reviews are very infomative and some are worthless, you have to know to take it for what it's worths.

Only complaint is they don't really have reviews for recording gears. Only effect processors....
 
I read HC reviews all the time. Google searches always land me there anyway.

Carl
 
Quite useful indeed.
And when 90% of the people praise an item, you just know that the 10% who hate it just are too dumb to get it to work.
Funny in a way.
 
Very usefull. Never posted anything there, but find lyrics and tab there. Why go there for gear reviews when you can post here...
 
M Havlen said:
Why go there for gear reviews when you can post here...
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Lazy sob! :D
No really. So you discard those reviews and expect 'us' to write reviews for you? That's pretty lame. Like if 'we' don't have anything better to do. Like answering real questions.
 
Where's the "I use it, but with a giant grain of salt" option???
 
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christiaan said:
Quite useful indeed.
And when 90% of the people praise an item, you just know that the 10% who hate it just are too dumb to get it to work.
Funny in a way.
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I look for the bad reviews and pay close attention to what problems could develop. If a review is all 10's, I pass it up completely.
 
Useful. Honest opinions on guitars and gear rather than advertisements in guitar rags posing as "reviews".
 
dafduc said:
Where's the "I use it, but with a giant grain of salt" option???
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That's the option I was looking for as well.

HC reviews are good to get a general feel for certain things, but they are heavily skewed towards the high end of the scale. If anything gets a "7" or less, I assume it sucks big. There are just too many reviewers that either: a)don't have enough experience to rate a product against the entire array of similar products in al price ranges b) try to justify their recent purchase by giving it a great review, or c) don't know what the heck they're talking about.

For example, how can a $300 Martin recieve a 9.7 for sound and durability, and a $3000 Taylor receive a 9.7 for the same things???!!!

Still, I read them often when I'm researching new gear becuase they provide useful insight into gear that is not biased by advertising dollars.

I will say that the p'up reviews are absolutely worthless.

All in all, I'd much rather get opinions from people on this board, because I can judge its value based on who's giving it, because I know the person to a certain extent, and I know wether they know what they are talking about or not.

Aaron
http://www voodoovibe.com
 
I do read Harmony Central reviews on anything I might be interested in. It' s obvious that you need to read "between the lines"; basically looking for common problems or common praise between various reviews in order to get a feel for what's real.

It' s far from perfect, but it can be another piece of the information puzzle when thinking about parting with hard-earned cash, and certainly no worse than the magazine reviews!
 
Aaron Cheney said:
That's the option I was looking for as well.

HC reviews are good to get a general feel for certain things, but they are heavily skewed towards the high end of the scale. If anything gets a "7" or less, I assume it sucks big. There are just too many reviewers that either: a)don't have enough experience to rate a product against the entire array of similar products in al price ranges b) try to justify their recent purchase by giving it a great review, or c) don't know what the heck they're talking about.

For example, how can a $300 Martin recieve a 9.7 for sound and durability, and a $3000 Taylor receive a 9.7 for the same things???!!!

Still, I read them often when I'm researching new gear becuase they provide useful insight into gear that is not biased by advertising dollars.

I will say that the p'up reviews are absolutely worthless.

All in all, I'd much rather get opinions from people on this board, because I can judge its value based on who's giving it, because I know the person to a certain extent, and I know wether they know what they are talking about or not.

Aaron
http://www voodoovibe.com
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Well, its all relative. You have local beauty contests, Ms world contests and Ms Universe contests. Each has a winner. They are judged in exactly the same ways. A $300 Martin can be a "10" in sound for the low price. A $5000 Martin can be a "10" for a high price. A worthless sounding guitar will be a "1" reguardless of cost.

Example: My poor sister bought a Yamaha guitar many years ago. This thing was like $1000 back in 1976. It is made beutifully. This thing has so much binding and inlays, the wood is gorgeous. The whole guitar gets an easy "10" for looks and build quality. The sound is =well= nothing. This guitar (acoustic 6 string) projects literally no sound. It is like it is a mute guitar. The sound is a "1" and I am being generous.
 
If there are ten reviews, there's usually one stuck off in there from an experienced person. They'll be unbiased from a musical standpoint and actually make a good review on the equipment itself.

That's the type of review I go on.

One of the options in the poll should have read "I like the fact the reviews are there and have found some to be very useful, but not all."

;)
 
acorec said:
A $300 Martin can be a "10" in sound for the low price. A $5000 Martin can be a "10" for a high price.
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But if you're judging them both on the same scale of 1-10 (which is how HC supposedly works), they wouldn't both be 10's. One might be a 9, and one might be a 4. But most reviewers aren't experienced and objective enough to rank their gear within that spectrum.

Every reviewer wants to think the gear they just bought is an absolutely great deal or sounds great at any cost.

Some of my favorite HC Review lines:

"I never give 10's, but..."
"I've finally found my sound."
"My quest for tone is finally over."
"Seems sturdy, but I've only had it for two days...."
"I've tried everything out there, and this one beats them all..."
(While beating chest) "This is my signal chain: Really old/ rare guitar>>Really Expensive thing >> Really expensive thing >> Really Expensive thing >> Thing being reviewed >> Really Rare thing>> Really expensive thing >> Super Expensive Amp."

Aaron
http://www.voodoovibe.com
 
alien said:
If there are ten reviews, there's usually one stuck off in there from an experienced person. They'll be unbiased from a musical standpoint and actually make a good review on the equipment itself.

That's the type of review I go on.
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Exactly.

Aaron
http://www.voodoovibe.com
 
I use the reviews as one tool when researching gear, other than that I hate their forums and the news updates are no big deal. I've asked the guys that run HC several times why they don't add a review database for DAW's and they always say they are but never have and this dates back a few years now. I'm starting to wonder if it's impossible to update web sites? They won't do it nor will Dragon update this site, like getting the vocal forum going. Must be hard being a webmaster. :confused:
 
Actually, adding a forum to a message board takes about 10 minutes ;)
 
They need to add a forum where we can add suggestions to companies so that if any of these morons are crusing this place we can let them in on the real world.


AND WHY THE HELL DOES EVERYONE LIKE HARMONY CENTRAL NOW?!?!?!?!?!?!?
 
"For example, how can a $300 Martin recieve a 9.7 for sound and durability, and a $3000 Taylor receive a 9.7 for the same things???!!!"


The same way a 4 cylinder buget compact car could receive a 10 for performance if it out performs all the other 4 cylinder compacts in its price range

but....maybe a corvette receives a 9 for performance because another car in its price range has more horse power.

in other words you have to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges
 
I almost only go there to read the reviews. I sometimes search the boards to find info on a particular piece of gear I'm looking at. But I also do that here and search newsgroups with deja news to get a balanced report.

I've found that reading HC gear reviews is sometimes like judging at the olympics - you need to throw out the high score (the kid who just got X piece of equipment and hasn't used anything else so he thinks what he has is 'da bomb') and the low score (the moron who didn't bother to read the friggin' manual and leaves a review like "THIS THING SOUNDS LIKE S*%* DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY NO MATTER HOW I TURNED THE KNOBS I COULDNT GET IT TO SOUND LIKE X").

That leaves a few good reviews that actually tell you what the equipment does, how it works, how good a value it is, etc. Those are easy enough to pick out. The other ones are basically good for a laugh.
 
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