Re: Mix magazine article and RE20 proximty effect

noydb wrote:
On Mon, 15 May 2006 20:07:35 -0700, Bob Cain wrote:


It's telling allright. And I'm not sure what you're implying,
but considering that they have last names like Massenburg and Albini, it
tells way more about the current state of this NG than about them. Just
for the record.

I think that those first tier guys drifted off when they came to realize
that a small intimate group of friends and peers was not a realistic
expectation for a medium such as usenet and they quietly went elsewhere to
find that fraternity.

Many did not realize that the medium was inappropriate to that purpose and
continued a while longer in ever less pleasant ways, blaming their
impossible and unmet expectations on people for their very presence and
willingness to show their naivete. A notable group of this second tier
left with much huff and door slamming as demonstrations of their
superiority. Some hang still to drain their bad livers. Last but hardly
least, some understand the reality of the medium and remain with
magnanimity to try and be of use to others who come to learn and to learn
from those who come to share.

Don't worry about Gary. He's a dumbass & everybody knows it, including
his mother.

You know her too?

They're not the only thing,ut your ears ARE the MOST IMPORTANT
thing. What the DBT crowd can't seem to grast is that RAP is a NG of
people who are "PROducing" a product for consumers to LISTEN to. Nobody is
going to buy your record so they can take it home & measure it. And no
client paying by the hour is going to sit still while you DBT mics &
preamps. You LEARN to LISTEN from EXPERIENCE. Then you learn to trust your
ears and your judgement. Theory is useful in that (in the absence of
experience) it can give you some rough idea of what you might try first.
But always remember that theory is the grandchild of observation. When you
have an opportunity to observe a phemomenon first hand, that puts you two
generations ahead of the guys who wrote the theory book.

I believe and trust in listening that has been conditioned by objective
comparison and I believe in theory to help understand, or even predict,
what remains as real. I'm coming more and more, however, to think that
taste, artistic sensibility and even good gimmicks outweigh golden
technical ears so as to make them only marginally significant.

We can agree to disagree then? :-)


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."

A. Einstein
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