Analog emulation snake oil?

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He can be entertaining at times.  Sometimes he comes up with some helpful insights and then other times he's way off.  I will say that his A/B video of the Klark Teknik 1176 kept me from buying one.  (I do love my KT 2A though!)

That dude is a hard pass for me. If I wan't phoned-in, wacky clickbait...well, I don't actually want that.

The KT76 thing was just ridiculous to the point that I'm not interested in that dude's 'ideas' about audio.

Thank god im not the only one. I think hes an idiot.

Didn't watch the video.

Don't know the dude or anything about him.

I realized a long time ago that most of these types of vids are just folks opining from places of ego, from profit(click revenue, pay-to-review, free stuff for favorable reviews, etc), or worst of all, from both. Much like anything online these days you have an open pulpit, you have a preacher, and you have the masses whose agreements echo, and those who disagree who are banned, discouraged from posting or otherwise silenced through downvotes or defensive interactions with fans of the mouthpiece or the outcome of the review.

It generally serves to filter out the negative (the arguably more constructive) responses so that the preacher only gets positive reinforcement, further bolstering their ego and the belief that they and their opinion are important and correct.

I mean c'mon, you gotta be pretty full of yourself to make videos of yourself jabbering on and on about stuff and thinking you can make money doing it.




But anyway, I don't think emulation of analog tones is "perfect" but then again I've very much relaxed my own ego and eased off the demand for perfection (or what I perceived as perfection). At some point I bought into the whole "has to be perfect to be used" thing, but I now just see things as *tones* to be used if they fit my needs.

So I don't worry about these things anymore and I'm much happier. If it sounds good, then it sounds good. If it sounds bad, then it's bad. Sometimes the bad sound can work good, and sometimes the good sound doesn't work and is therefor bad.

Regardless, I think folks should master what they have first and I'd bet they don't go scouring the earth looking for perfection and wasting their time and money doing so.

Oh yeah, that thread.  Epic.  So many of my (probably jaded) views came from watching those types of threads.  

But the rise of Youtube talking heads has really sealed the deal for me on this.  If you search for anything you will find nothing but highly produced opinionated commentary and little in the way of facts.   Oh you want to hear a clip of this guitar pedal?   Ok, here's a 5 minute video which is comprised of 15 seconds of verbose and ambiguous intro attempting to create intrigue so you'll watch it, 5 seconds of animated title screen, 2 minutes of talking and pointing to things that don't matter (do we really need to go over what the tone and volume knobs do?), 5 seconds of actual clip that you wanted to hear, but 2 of those seconds are dead air before the player hits the pedal, then another 2.5 minutes of rehashing an ambiguous position so as to not offend the manufacturer, with links to other vids overlayed so that you can't see what's going on behind as the outro music plays.

Or it's somebody with a cellphone making a un-intelligible video where you can't hear the thing you wanted to hear but you also can't understand what they're saying either.

And those are the good ones!

I'm sorry, I don't have a pickup or a tractor or a dog..

That certainly de-tracts from this thread!
Chris

After he blew his voice out and couldn't actually SING anymore, maybe. Or write worth a crap, either.

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