I must've been deaf... having not heard anything from a very noisy thread, until it was too late... it was already locked! waaaaaaaaAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
Well, I should say it's pretty much a sequel to the Pod thread, but with so much more action. Skunkyfunk was still insisting how all of us who are fans of the pod are victims of marketing hype. Tsk, tsk. I didn't realize I was that stupid. Also, I seem to have been misquoted. What I said was, "better is the enemy of good." It was meant to point out our tendencies to make a good idea better, but often ending up with 'inferior' material. I guess one of the reasons why a lot of people say the music of the past is so much better is that when you decided to make a good idea better, it required a lot of commitment on the musician's part, because there's no undo button on the 2" multitrack machine, and very few people would waste a track on an alternate take. more often than not, people were happy with an "almost-perfect" take and an "almost-perfect" mix. And what happened after that? People very seldomly went back to remix or retake a project unless everybody was convinced they could do so much better. Most of the time, after mixdown, it was time to make new materials to record. None of this obsessing on amps vs. pods, or how authentic an emulation is, and all the BS we all have to deal with, now that pretty much everything is within most people's financial reach.
Skunkyfunk pointed how the actual sound of an amp is able to inspire the player. Well, that point is true. Orchestral players need to constantly listen to their instruments too, that's why it's quite difficult for them to use headphones while recording. At least at first.
Here's something I consider to be far more important. I think what's more lacking is the interaction of a player with his (or her) co-players. I wouldn't want a guitar player who obsesses on his amp, and forgets that he has bandmates too. The godly tone (or the podly tone) doesn't really matter much if it didn't help the music.
Here's something I have against loud amps -- they hurt our ears. They damage our hearing. And our ears are supposed to be our best assets in our music-making.
