Re: stereo [unreleased products]

["maugli" <maugli@intermess.com>]

LOL
amen to that!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tiktok" <tiktok@sprintmail.com>
To: "Looper's Delight" <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 08:11 PM
Subject: Re: stereo [unreleased products]


>
> >It's been my experience that products always sound better until they are
> >heard.
>
> It's a little more complicated:
>
> 1) Pre-release:
> The Most Fabulous Object In The World!!!!  I'll sell my old things so I
have
> enough money to buy it RIGHT AWAY!!!
>
> 2) Immediately upon release:
> a) YES!! YES!!! YES!!!
> or
> b) Sounds like shit!  I like the [ten/twenty year-old antecedent] much
> better.  [Insert much talk of "warmth", "punch", "soft-clipping", and
> "natural" quality of sound--double bonus points if this refers to a ring
> modulator or anything with a germanium transistor in it]
>
> 3) 6-12 months after release:
> Eh...why doesn't it do this/that/the other/isn't it true 
>stereo/upgradable
> to an hour of sampling time/allow real-time control of all 
>parameters/half
> the price.  My creative vision is so singular that it is nearly 
>impossible
> to get any sound out of this thing.  Bah.
>
> 4) 12 months-5 years after release:
> It's okay...I guess.  Sort of limited.
>
> 5) 10 years down the road:
> Wow!  Does anyone know where I can find one of those things?  I just 
>heard
> an album by so-and-so and he sounded amazing!  It's got a really great
> low-fi/warm/punchy/musical/natural sound that you just can't get out of
> today's gear.  And it's got to be one of the early ones--they changed
> something in the later ones and they sound really harsh and cold.  I'd 
>pay
> twice what they went for new!  Maybe if I could find two, then I'd be in
> stereo...
>
>
> TH
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