big country said:
when dealing with pros you do not need to explain every thing .why you ask because they know.
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of course I will be a little more professional. I can learn to deal.
What you don't get - because you didn't do your homework first - is that you
are dealing with pros right now. I myself built my first home studio when you were only 7 years old and have been a professional engineer (audio, video, and software engineer) in this industry since you were a stoner in high school. Farview is also a professional audio engineer; he has worked in broadcasting as well as in recording and has more knowledge and experience with recording drums than you and I put together, and has helped build professional mastering suites. Sillyhat has done work for major labels for a while now - as an engineer, not as a carpenter.
The fact is, you simply don't know quite as much as you think you do about audio engineering, and what fundamental stuff you do know you haven't done a very good job of communicating here. You're a white or a yellow belt trying to pick fights with brown and black belts when you should be trying to learn moves from them instead. You're right, this forum is a good training ground; consider this your first lesson: You'll never make it past carpenter to an engineer in the pros until you can recognize your place and use that to your advantage.
There are people in this forum that are 2nd and 3rd Dan black belts in engineering compared to my modest little brown belt that it took a quarter of a century to earn, and I have come to recognize that. I'm still learning things from them. The only way I can learn things from them is to understand that they have either more knowledge or experience than I, and when a situation comes where I might initially disagree with them, I resolve it by stating the points on accurate detail and then respectfully asking them if/where I have it wrong. But if I try butting heads with them, I will learn nothing except an easy way to get a badly bruised noggen.
So take my advice along with a couple of Excedrin and do your homework; before you defend a position to your death you had damn well better a) really know what you're talking about, b) be able to explain your position properly, and c) know who you're talking to before you make any assumptions as to their capabilities. Unless you like bumps on your noggin, of course.
G.