crusty philtrum
Vintageologist
Re: A few specific questions about testing wood influence on tone
Whatever. The majority of folks probably get the gist of my post. It's quite typical of someone like yourself to deliberately attempt to distort an opinion in order to big yourself up/ belittle someone else. I have no interest in this, I'm a human being and a musician. I have decent gear, get decent sounds and play in public and get positive acclaim from other players and listeners alike. We all have fun. I'm sure most forum members have at least vaguely similar experiences.
Occasionally here we get the odd pedantic types who are so fixated on some detail or another that one begins to wonder a) if they even play, and b) how they ever actually manage to enjoy anything. I've met people like that. For all their professed knowledge, they invariably fail to show up for jam sessions or put their abilities where their mouths are. Ones i have known personally usually seem to have social problems, and are best avoided. They usually have no friends. They usually sit alone at home, secure in the knowledge that they are indeed superior, while the lesser beings, the great uneducated, unwashed masses, manage to have some fun and make some progress.
It's so easy to pontificate from the sidelines, particularly from the isolated, unexposed safety of a computer in a quiet room. The forum usually has one or two of these superior beings at any given point in time. Never do we get to experience their wonderfulness in any way beyond what they tell us. Tonewoods will soon disappear, smug in the knowledge that he tried but the masses are just too stupid to recognise his genius. There was a member just like Tonewoods a while back, who was on exactly the same trip. That one (who i suspect is also this one), used the forum name 'Arius', and mentioned more than once about his 'followers', as if he were some kind of saviour-like figure.
In the meantime, the majority are managing to make music of some kind and have some degree of enjoyment. Most of us manage to do that in spite of the occasional forum genius/ scientist telling us that what we do is all wrong.
This is as far as I'm going in this painful thread, because I don't need to prove anything to anyone, and when i do, i do it with a guitar in my hands. Regular, ordinary people decide whether what i do pleases them or not. They don't care what wood my guitar is made of or what type of caps i used when i built my amp. The nit-pickers, self-absorbed, pedants and scientists are probably better served by working as sound engineers or builders of mixing desks and PA systems.
Good luck on deconstructing this post any any other post that doesn't fit your ideals. It's happened before, and yet us plebs are still out there making music and entertaining people and enjoying some social interaction. Weird, huh ?
Whatever. The majority of folks probably get the gist of my post. It's quite typical of someone like yourself to deliberately attempt to distort an opinion in order to big yourself up/ belittle someone else. I have no interest in this, I'm a human being and a musician. I have decent gear, get decent sounds and play in public and get positive acclaim from other players and listeners alike. We all have fun. I'm sure most forum members have at least vaguely similar experiences.
Occasionally here we get the odd pedantic types who are so fixated on some detail or another that one begins to wonder a) if they even play, and b) how they ever actually manage to enjoy anything. I've met people like that. For all their professed knowledge, they invariably fail to show up for jam sessions or put their abilities where their mouths are. Ones i have known personally usually seem to have social problems, and are best avoided. They usually have no friends. They usually sit alone at home, secure in the knowledge that they are indeed superior, while the lesser beings, the great uneducated, unwashed masses, manage to have some fun and make some progress.
It's so easy to pontificate from the sidelines, particularly from the isolated, unexposed safety of a computer in a quiet room. The forum usually has one or two of these superior beings at any given point in time. Never do we get to experience their wonderfulness in any way beyond what they tell us. Tonewoods will soon disappear, smug in the knowledge that he tried but the masses are just too stupid to recognise his genius. There was a member just like Tonewoods a while back, who was on exactly the same trip. That one (who i suspect is also this one), used the forum name 'Arius', and mentioned more than once about his 'followers', as if he were some kind of saviour-like figure.
In the meantime, the majority are managing to make music of some kind and have some degree of enjoyment. Most of us manage to do that in spite of the occasional forum genius/ scientist telling us that what we do is all wrong.
This is as far as I'm going in this painful thread, because I don't need to prove anything to anyone, and when i do, i do it with a guitar in my hands. Regular, ordinary people decide whether what i do pleases them or not. They don't care what wood my guitar is made of or what type of caps i used when i built my amp. The nit-pickers, self-absorbed, pedants and scientists are probably better served by working as sound engineers or builders of mixing desks and PA systems.
Good luck on deconstructing this post any any other post that doesn't fit your ideals. It's happened before, and yet us plebs are still out there making music and entertaining people and enjoying some social interaction. Weird, huh ?
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