Tell me why this is a bad idea......

[Big Kenny]

What one engineer is going for is different from another.. It's YOUR right to do as you please, and it's the public's right to reject it or like it.. Determine what tool you need to get you there and USE it!

Just as some will stand here and stomp their feet insisting there is no other mic but a Neumann U87.......hogwash.....:

In one phrase you say do what you want and in the next what someone else might want is hogwash....... Kinda flawed, eh?

 

[littledog]

In one phrase you say do what you want and in the next what someone else might want is hogwash....... Kinda flawed, eh?

Kenny, I really liked Roadie's post, and I don't really see the statements as logical paradox.

He is saying there are many paths to any single goal, and and one should feel free to explore any and all of them. The "hogwash" comes when someone says the ONLY way to record a good vocal is with a U87, and any other methodologies are illegitimate.

That doesn't mean that one shouldn't choose to use a U87 on 99% of your recordings if you honestly feel that is your best choice. But it would be nice to be able to at least recognize that a few nice vocals have been done on a some other mics from time to time.

I think Road Warrior's statements are analogous to the following:

I believe in the freedom of religion.
I disapprove of religions that do not respect the right of anyone to choose how they wish to worship.

While there is an apparent contradiction, there is also a logical consistency. At least I hope so, because that's how I feel!

 

[Big Kenny]

Hogwash

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[littledog]

I wonder where the word "hogwash" actually comes from, anyway?

 

[Big Kenny]

The word "hogwash" itself comes from a more honorable venue, the barnyard. "Hogwash" in the farming sense is garbage, kitchen waste, or sometimes the leftover refuse of a brewery, used as slop or swill for the feeding of swine. The "wash" in "hogwash" is derived from the noun "wash," which has many senses, including "waste water, discharged after use in washing" (as in rinsing out a pot, for instance), and "hogwash" in the literal feed-the-piggies sense is indeed often largely liquid. "Hogwash" first appeared in English in the barnyard sense around 1440, and by 1712 was being used as a synonym for cheap liquor or any other worthless thing, including bad writing. By the late 1800s, "hogwash" was being used among journalists themselves to describe worthless writing in newspapers, and ever since "hogwash" has been used to mean any sort of intellectually fraudulent argument or specious proclamation.

I mentioned above that "swill" is another word for "hogwash" in the pig-food sense, but "swill" (which comes from the Old English word "swillan," meaning "to rinse out") is not generally used to mean "nonsense." "Swill," rather, has been used since the 16th century to mean food which is fit only for swine.

 

[littledog]

Wow! Next time I've got a question about etymology, I'm going right to:

www.bigkenny.com !