Bang on right David.
I have been into this for about 18 months and it has been a hard slog to learn what little I know now. And if I had seen posts like that when I was starting out, I would have have been scared to make the investment in time and money.
I spent some time recently in a pro-recording studio with some old-hand engineers with top rated resumes that we would die for.
And the top man there told me that he used outboard gear cos he loved to twiddle knobs and some of the gear does provide excellent sounds. But....he then went on to say that from what he listens to now, a lot of the gear could be made redundant because of the "quality of sounds" from the plug-ins he has witnessed.
And I know that to be so, just checkout the free demo Reverb from timeworks, it is stunning, as good as any of my guitar fx that I have or have used in years of playing.
And how mant times do we see newbies on this site saying, "I don't know anything about recording, please tell me what I should do/buy/use etc." At least twice a week?
I saw a post in another forum recently from AlChuck replying to some piece of similar disinformation i.e. a man told a friend who told his sister who told his dog who .......you get the picture.
Anyway, AlChucks message was "don't just accept what people tell you, do your own research." And he is right.
End of sermon. I apologise
