Wondering who else used to be a GearSlut/Space-r and left.

Yeah, haven’t been over there in years. I just come here and bug you guys.

Cheers,
Geoff

Y’all are much more accepting of dumb questions over here as long as I ask nicely.

People here don’t “lord” their knowledge and experience over anyone and that makes it a much better place to learn.

I've had many accounts there and have mostly deleted them in anger mostly over people apologizing for horrible practices and total crap.

The biggest issue is gearslutz deleting accounts over people criticizing horrible behavior or horrible corporate practices past and present from certain companies, e.g. Behringer Music Group, Gibson, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Focal, Amphion, Pulsar Modular, Joe Meek, SSL, Presonus, etc who's the guy that made the Pye Clones a while back? and poor products from companies who make mostly good ones. Many manufacturers make great analog hardware and horrible plugins or their lineup is great and one or two products are absolutely horrific. There's often criticism elsewhere on the internet but not on the slutz space.

?? I've been over there for 15+ years and have had few problems. I think it might be where on that site that one hangs out. There is drama on the internet no matter where you go.

There have always been inexperienced people with strong opinions on Gearslutz, but twenty years ago it was easier to filter them out, especially in the high end forum.

Today the site is a a total disaster. Unless I'm not following the right people.

My problems with Gearspace really start with attitudes. People there are not interested in social interactions anymore. There's very little PMing/story swapping. No one shares tips or experiences. Instead, you have people preening about whatever knowledge they can pretend to horde in the age of Youtube Tutorial Videos. 

Next. I was given an opportunity for free swag at a time which was really tumultuous in my life, and I got some Mackie Speakers which were horrible. I mean...really not great, to "review" from their mods "hooking me up". It was a curse. I wound up not doing the review because I knew I'd slag Mackie, and they wouldn't stand for it. So, the mods kind of wrote me off after that.

But it was an inferior product since Equator was a company at the time, and the same amount of money could have gotten you a pair of D5s (which are still great for the money, even used).

I put my whole life on the line for years making very little money as an engineer/producer. But I tried. I gave it my all. And I always relayed my experiences in posts meant to help people. Genuinely. Because that's what communities should be about (paying it forward).

There's so much I've learned from great people over there...yet most of them are gone now. Or they've migrated here. I still post there sometimes, but the site is very near dead in terms of response times with most of the forums these days. And High End, which was my home away from home...is now filled with prosumer hobbyists with high paying day jobs, who moonlight as engineers with their fat wallets, while a great many pros can barely get paying work in most towns which aren't music hubs. And normally I wouldn't slag off hobbyists, but it's infuriating when I think of the great studios that have closed down while I watch people who don't really have much experience argue about which Neve clone to buy next.

The home studio killed it too. Now everyone can record something somewhat passable, if bland as hell, without having to spend a lot of money. There's also a glut in this industry when it comes to new material being submitted to streaming services...which, without the gatekeeping of old, has devalued HiFi works of real art as well...it's just a mess if you're not willing to work social media as an artist now.

I want to make records which sound like they should be on the radio. That's it. I'm pretty much tired of settling for anything less. So that's what I'm gonna do. I could give a hoot about anything else.

Hobbyists don't really bother me. It's more the culture of "the attack of the clones" when it comes to gear. People latch onto things which aren't that important...when it's the integrity of the tracking, the mix, and the master...the results that matter.

I do it sometimes to (I care about what makes the original units great usually). So maybe that makes me a bit of a hypocrite. Hell, maybe that's partly why I want to give a Great River preamp another shot soon (because it's expressly it's own thing, and not really a Neve clone). I think I want to move into more unique boutique stuff when possible.

I'm just attracted to HiFi sounds in a world where the budgets have all been slashed. *Facepalm*.

Also, I'm a little bitter tonight, because a studio I outfitted (Sun Studios), is moving to a new location, and the owner, who ran them into the ground the first time around isn't thinking clearly. It's just another case of people biting off more than they can chew instead of focusing on winning the trust of the music scene.

i simply plain HATE the language over there.
and EVERY promising thread derails into war/nonsense terrain ...
sincere answers get ignored and everybody just tries to persuade their own favorites.
to much plugin-flavour-of-the-month talk.

i do read and listen to mix off‘s from time to time: thats when you realize that some people are just plugin collectors and don‘t know what they are doing.


i REALLY appreciate your pro wisdom here and real expierence. and its time for a thank-you from me to you for that!

I'm still there, but wonder why? I think it's because SOMEBODY has to try to counteract all the utter BS what gets posted, especially in the guitar forum. There are some "young kids" (r4elatively speaking) who will argue the most ignorant things and get really nasty about older people with experience. I think that there are maybe a handful of good posters left in the Guitar forum. Most of the good ones have left, or just don't post anymore.

It’s wading through the BS that gets so boring. Yeah the more specialized forums are better, but it just feels so corporate.

I understand, I don’t “ hate “ it as a matter of fact I do find myself often digging into some old threads fo info on things I am not all that familiar about, but in doing so there is a definite shift from an informative base of audio knowledge and guys you would get a drink with to your typical giant of social media. This place is it for my social media presence these days.

I didn’t think it was my friend, it was more for clarification! Bill I can think of one person who while I have forgiven, hate would not be out of the question.