Growing this Forum

The problem with getting bigger is we could lose the civility and have more of these "my way or the highway" types in here.

There are a lot of us here who've already been there, seen that, done that, know the difference and really don't need some junior with 10 years experience trying to reinvent the wheel, and be a know-it-all who tries to one-up the rest of us... we can all learn from each other. I hope the douches stay clear of here.

I think with all things, word of mouth is best. Generally if you like someone enough to talk to them directly, they are good enough people to be part of the forum.

JMO, This is exactly right, Jk has to finance this whole thing, he hasn't asked anyone for $, but he did post the shared revenue forum at the top of the main page, it would be great if guys would sign up there, and also hit the paypal donate button once in a while to help take some of the $ pressure off  JK, i think this place will grow with more threads started, and a rise in RGO's presence on the google search machine?

Small self-selected is good! Every single pro audio newsgroup, mailing list or forum that has grown very big has turned off most of the people one can learn from.

BTW - I will weed out any members that are here to cause problems...life is too short - and in my opinion, if you can't act civilized while disagreeing, you should take it to the purple site.

John,
The advertisers care as much about how many new customers they can tie to views as they do raw views. That's part of GS problem lots of views but are they generating anything?
Your being gone and making music is a goodthing!
Many view the downfall in quality in that purple site when Jules became more of an Internet guy and less of a recording guy!

Classifieds will grow as word spreads that they are affective.

The thing is your best bet is to recruite guys like Shannon and Jeff, Vendors who still enjoy recording, who are here to talk audio as much as sell gear! GS has scared and scard a lot of great people. Maybe experiment with a couple of retailers with a discount code so both parties can track sales. Like I said its not about just views its about what it costs to get sales.

"the TSU thing is cool, but it's certainly not turning out to be a profitable money maker for the site. I've made .03 cents so far. "it pays more than spotify!

The problem is you have to have Taylor Swift name on it who else could take white noise to #1 ! Okay it was Canada but I heard Pinks next to singles are Pink Noise and my hubby's ride!
That's how you make money!

Interesting. Think there's any point to even consolidating?

See, but that was one thing I despised about the purple site - the 47 sub forums. I kind of think it's set up pretty well right now.

Can I make a suggestion as a relative new guy?

My overall impression of this forum is that it has been dominated by custom or modified mic builders (nothing wrong with that) but it's kind of one dimensional. Maybe it goes in phases, but that's my impression. Mic builders, I mean no disrespect I have learned a great deal that has been very helpful.

An opportunity for this forum may be to encourage expanded topics or conversations about other hardware. Maybe analog tape lovers section, compression, best efx processors, ITB or outboard?

In my opinion, the major fail of GS is that there is zero organized discussion about the fundamentals of tracking, mixing and mastering. Instead, the membership take on a superior attitude about all of that, as if "everyone" on the forum already knows the ins and out of those fundamentals.

The fact is that GS to me has 10-20% of their membership as pros who wont waste their time helping the less experienced out on these issues, and 80-90% of the membership as bedroom jerk offs who want to humiliate others to make them selves feel better.

That is the huge weakness of ole Jules.

This forum should bring more information to help the less experienced recordist get to their potential. I love helping folks who are really serious about developing their recording chops and who are "students" of the art.

The GS place makes people like that feel like crap.

There's the opportunity!

Even with what svart said, and i get why he says it, most members gravitate to one area. As an experiment, you should re post a new thread in this section about Jeffs "hypothetical" new 500 series compressor, i bet it gets 10 times the posts of whats going on in the diy section...so, i guess my answer is.... maybe?

I think a great thing to do would be to organize some raffle type of vendor sponsored give aways, songwriting contests, mixing contests? maybe start some "ask ____" special guest sub forums, that would attract people big time, maybe an "Ask Bob Ohlsson" sub forum? He's such an amazing guy to have around, it'd be cool to get that kind of a thing going with some famed engineers/artist?

most importantly, we'd all have to be vigilant about keeping trollish nasty sabatores out of here with large member expansion. 

I wish more people would post new threads, i try to, but i feel like im over stepping sometimes(plus i'm weird 8). Jk, you have a great track record of posting new threads that get traction, maybe you could get manufacturers to lend u gear for reviews, then you'll be posting very current threads that those vendors will be attracted to?  Just spitting ideas.....