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Post by Tony on Jul 7, 2014 19:30:03 GMT
I have many but the main one has to be 'transparent overdrive' If the overdrive was truly transparent it wouldn't be an over drive as it wouldn't have any kind of effect. Therefore the most transparent overdrive is no overdrive. And as a continuation the word transparent used in relation to anything guitar related really. Actually I had better add one little adjustment. If it applies to the following picture it's perfectly acceptable.  |
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Post by MDV on Jul 7, 2014 19:51:48 GMT
Oh don't even get me started.
Transparent. Yes. Quite. Exactly. A transparent thing in audio is something that does it's job without mutating the sound much or at all. For example, a compressor might compress and add some distortion in doing so. This is not transparent. An EQ may EQ but create audible phase cancellations. Not transparent. If you can hear the gears own sonic signature, its not transparent. Amps, pickups, guitars, cabs are all, in the grand scheme of audio, as transparent as brick walls.
Dynamics. People seem to 'think' it means that its creating some additional variation in the sound that wasn't there before, if they appear to know what it means at all. It means volume variation. Nothing more. The variability in articulation that people often call 'dynamics' is in fact variability in articulation. In general if you cut down gain and/or low end you will hear more of this, and its in your playing, not in your gear.
Organic. I have no clue what organic means. Sounds like hydrocarbons?
Sterile. As opposed to sounds like a colony of e-coli? Doesn't mean a thing.
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Post by Tony on Jul 7, 2014 20:12:08 GMT
Sterile. As opposed to sounds like a colony of e-coli? Doesn't mean a thing.  You shall receive an invoice in the mail for the coffee you just made me waste. |
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Post by MDV on Jul 7, 2014 20:13:56 GMT
Sterile. As opposed to sounds like a colony of e-coli? Doesn't mean a thing. I don't know what that means. |
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Post by MDV on Jul 7, 2014 20:31:30 GMT
I don't know what that means. Now that, I understand! Much better. |
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Post by Blankplank on Jul 7, 2014 20:48:43 GMT
Nothing that hasn't been said so far!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2014 21:35:18 GMT
Anyone who doesn't believe the solution isn't shimming the tubes.
However, the playing with "emotion" thing annoys me. The only emotion you're allowed to convey is slow and wailing apparently. Fast is an emotion. Fast is life.
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Post by MDV on Jul 7, 2014 21:35:50 GMT
Warm and cold.
Its not a fucking shower.
As best I can tell warm refers to things lacking in high frequencies. So warm means muddy. Cold, things lacking lows (so it means thin), but also things with more square-wave and/or even harmonic distortion.
If it just referred to the distortion characteristics, it would be fine, but it doesn't and qualitative temperature ranges are daft names for EQ balances.
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Post by nfe on Jul 7, 2014 21:54:05 GMT
'More' (or similar) in relation to tone. The Marshall gave me more tone than the Fender'. 'The fat finger added tone'.
Qualitative descriptors please, not quantitative ones, you dicks.
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Post by MDV on Jul 7, 2014 22:00:58 GMT
Tone as measured on a tonemeter in Aws (Awesomes) indicate that a marshall has at least 3.7 more Aws of tone than a fender, on average, from a random sample of 50 of each amps as played by robots.
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Post by Davemc on Jul 10, 2014 15:08:29 GMT
I actually don't mind transparent as long as people are aware of what you guys are saying and what it actually means (normally a bit flatter EQ than a tubescreamer), and as long as it's not applied to stuff which really isn't transparent at all (e.g. tubescreamer clones). Kind of like the way I still use the word "tremolo" to describe a vibrato bridge. But I know what you guys are saying too, and I agree with you that if something were totally transparent there'd be little point in using it because it'd be the same if it were on or off.
"Cleans up really well" is annoying when describing OD/distortion pedals (or even amps). A lot of the time it's dependent on how much distortion is dialled in, for a start.
All those pretentious TGP type ones like (but not limited to) bloom, chirp, swirl, etc. etc.
EDIT: "Game-changer". That one's maybe the worst. Especially when it's a glorified tubescreamer.
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Post by MDV on Jul 10, 2014 16:58:29 GMT
Swirl? that's a new one on me.
I really can't imagine what it would be but a phase effect. Fucking 'swirl' indeed.
I'll add '3D'. Fuck right off. Sound doesn't have depth of any sort unless it's getting apparent distance from reverb.
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Post by Davemc on Jul 10, 2014 18:26:29 GMT
Yeah I think it's maybe that slightly phasey/tremoloey effect you get when you hold a chord for a while. At least, that's what I assume it is. I have no idea for sure.
LOL at 3D
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Post by Tony on Jul 10, 2014 18:36:51 GMT
3D sound DOES exist. I have proof.
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Post by MDV on Jul 10, 2014 18:45:12 GMT
I love that video. It's beautiful.
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