Hurt a Gear YTs feelings

[thegame]

Just depends

You’re describing my underwear drawer

 

[311boogieman]

I love YT'ers. thank you all for the great work you do

 

[marvcus]

There’s one dude whose channel is called all playing no talking or something like that. Like that guy

 

[Faded Abyss]

I used to watch a select few YouTubers and think “wow, what did they do to get such good tones/mixes?”. Now I watch YouTubers and can’t help but be put off by the cringe disclaimers trying to convince the audience that the company hasn’t even seen the demo and they own their own thoughts and opinions.

Maybe that’s why this fellar can’t turn his frown upside down? Does he let you know that his thoughts and opinions are his own? Maybe someone took them from him and he is suffering

 

[Kordoba]

Turn that frown upside down and smile a while.

 

[Dale B]

I only ever watch Pete Thorn, Michael Nielsen, Jon Symons (Sonic Drive Studio) and the other John Browne. I like Johan Segeborn too. Johan's Marshall mixed with Hiwatt stuff sounds fucking awesome.

 

[tallcoolone]

I see YT as a way to see how gear sounds, mostly I find people talk too much but you just click ahead so who cares. When I was in my 20s the only thing you had was a ($20 in today’s money) magazine that maybe had a dozen ‘reviews’ of mostly crap you didn’t care about. So to me YT is magic—but I hear what Dan is saying

 

[JackBootedThug]

I see YT as a way to see how gear sounds, mostly I find people talk too much but you just click ahead so who cares. When I was in my 20s the only thing you had was a ($20 in today’s money) magazine that maybe had a dozen ‘reviews’ of mostly crap you didn’t care about. So to me YT is magic—but I hear what Dan is saying

I look at shit now compared to 1985…. Fuck bwah…. Quality cheap gear, information and education opportunities out the ass…. I remember trying to hurry and learn a riff from a bud or show them a riff before school was out. Guitar world or gftpm and tab books. That was it. And in my area you couldn’t get gftpm….

 

[RaceU4her]

all i know is instead of hearing people angry about food stamps or white house renovations or what asshole is winning where today, im gonna get on my treadmill and watch youtubers discuss the exact same topics we will be doing here today, and its going to be great. i might even like, comment and subscribe if they really put on a good performance trying to convince me the hideous bullshit they are playing sounds good.

 

[DrewJD82]

I see YT as a way to see how gear sounds, mostly I find people talk too much but you just click ahead so who cares. When I was in my 20s the only thing you had was a ($20 in today’s money) magazine that maybe had a dozen ‘reviews’ of mostly crap you didn’t care about. So to me YT is magic—but I hear what Dan is saying

This is exactly how I view them. I skip through 95% of the talking unless it’s someone I share some playing/tone commonalities with or I know they’ve got the experience to make a qualified statement about how a piece of gear could work in different situations. Andy Wood, Ben Eller, Pete Thorn, Ola and Jon from Sonic Drive are pretty much it. I also watch a good amount of John Cordy’s vids because I love his playing, but the verbal content generally gets skipped.

I have zero interest in how gear sounds in isolation, I want to know what it’ll do in a studio or on a stage and I think it’s fairly obvious once someone dials in a tone on an amp or pedal if they’ve got experience outside of the house, there’s a few popular geartubers who dial in so much distortion and cut so many mids the tones wouldn’t work anywhere but in the bedroom/living room.

 

[tallcoolone]

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I look at shit now compared to 1985…. Fuck bwah…. Quality cheap gear, information and education opportunities out the ass…. I remember trying to hurry and learn a riff from a bud or show them a riff before school was out. Guitar world or gftpm and tab books. That was it. And in my area you couldn’t get gftpm….

Yup you had to actually talk to people in order to learn anything. I guess it toughened us up — no one I knew lived at home/with their parents after 18.

Ugh, I’m the old man now

 

[Exo-metal]

I think he was trying to say this:

Too buku lol

 

[tallcoolone]

This is exactly how I view them. I skip through 95% of the talking unless it’s someone I share some playing/tone commonalities with or I know they’ve got the experience to make a qualified statement about how a piece of gear could work in different situations. Andy Wood, Ben Eller, Pete Thorn, Ola and Jon from Sonic Drive are pretty much it. I also watch a good amount of John Cordy’s vids because I love his playing, but the verbal content generally gets skipped.

I have zero interest in how gear sounds in isolation, I want to know what it’ll do in a studio or on a stage and I think it’s fairly obvious once someone dials in a tone on an amp or pedal if they’ve got experience outside of the house, there’s a few popular geartubers who dial in so much distortion and cut so many mids the tones wouldn’t work anywhere but in the bedroom/living room.

I will say, playing anything remotely captivating a cappella with the restrictions they have on YT is no easy thing to do. But I agree, very little interest in even finding out. I do wish that when people do a demo of an overdrive they don’t run it into a spanking clean Fender DR.

 

[JackBootedThug]

Too buku lol

 

[BABMusic]

The other john browne is a whole hell of a lot cooler than the "og" john browne

Gear youtube is like a ouroboros where shittiest hobbyists create an audience so them and the gear companies can make money off the other hobbyists - it's honestly gross and probably most of the reason why music sucks a big fat donkey dick right now

seriously the only people who disagree are the gear youtubers themselves, because they know where there bread is buttered

I was reminded of something today that is sort of in relation to this post. I went to school with this person, although I didn't know him very well. I knew he was a composer, mostly in the choral music field (one of the fields I like to write in as well). About a year ago, I noticed he now has a huge youtube channel. I was initially excited when I saw this, but then I clicked on and listened to a few of his videos and I realized it was not all that great. I just don't get the reactionary videos and why people love them. Maybe it's just meeting people where they are, but what does this say about us? Sort of like how it's easy and tasty to eat at McDonalds -- but where's the nutrition? This came up on my recommended vids today;


On the other hand though, I get it. It's really difficult to make a living as a composer these days and composers have been turning to YT and other paths to make ends meet. I even have my own music theory channel, although I haven't yet put a lot of energy into it. I update it as often as I feel inspired to do so. But I don't put out content that is a reaction -- I find that stuff just very watered down.

 

[NeubyWanKaneuby]

I was reminded of something today that is sort of in relation to this post. I went to school with this person, although I didn't know him very well. I knew he was a composer, mostly in the choral music field (one of the fields I like to write in as well). About a year ago, I noticed he now has a huge youtube channel. I was initially excited when I saw this, but then I clicked on and listened to a few of his videos and I realized it was not all that great. I just don't get the reactionary videos and why people love them. Maybe it's just meeting people where they are, but what does this say about us? Sort of like how it's easy and tasty to eat at McDonalds -- but where's the nutrition? This came up on my recommended vids today;


On the other hand though, I get it. It's really difficult to make a living as a composer these days and composers have been turning to YT and other paths to make ends meet. I even have my own music theory channel, although I haven't yet put a lot of energy into it. I update it as often as I feel inspired to do so. But I don't put out content that is a reaction -- I find that stuff just very watered down.

I hate reaction videos, especially "The first time listening to (fill in the blank)!" shit.

 

[DanTravis62]

I was reminded of something today that is sort of in relation to this post. I went to school with this person, although I didn't know him very well. I knew he was a composer, mostly in the choral music field (one of the fields I like to write in as well). About a year ago, I noticed he now has a huge youtube channel. I was initially excited when I saw this, but then I clicked on and listened to a few of his videos and I realized it was not all that great. I just don't get the reactionary videos and why people love them. Maybe it's just meeting people where they are, but what does this say about us? Sort of like how it's easy and tasty to eat at McDonalds -- but where's the nutrition? This came up on my recommended vids today;


On the other hand though, I get it. It's really difficult to make a living as a composer these days and composers have been turning to YT and other paths to make ends meet. I even have my own music theory channel, although I haven't yet put a lot of energy into it. I update it as often as I feel inspired to do so. But I don't put out content that is a reaction -- I find that stuff just very watered down.

That's too funny, I've seen his reactions before just by happenstance

He seems knowledgeable about theory and all that but some of his takeaways from heavy music are hilariously boomer-worthy

I.E. "wow Megadeth has amazing musicianship but his voice is off-putting" and "golly I don't like fast double bass drumming that sounds like a helicopter"

No shade as I'm sure he's just doing what he has to do to pay the bills, but reaction content is probably on an even lower level of banality than "gear shilling" channels by "musicians"