Are we circling the drain?

[moozz]

I agree with the Youtuber thing- it’s more mindless entertainment than actual useful information. Anyone actually good, like Hainbach or Knobs or whatever, is going to make whatever piece of gear you’re interested in sound amazing. When you get the gear yourself, you’ll quickly realize you cannot make the thing sound the same. That’s my experience, at least. A few rounds of this reality has definitely sobered my enthusiasm for their videos. Everything else is just overt advertising, right? Can’t be critical or companies won’t keep sending you shit.

I do like Bad Gear though- listening to Florian being silly is always pretty funny. And I like his little jams.

Replying kinda late as ILF was not working for me for about 6 months (kept getting error 500). Now an overwhelming amount of gear conversation to read.

I approach youtube videos from a different angle as I do not play guitar or bass or keys. I use my lovely contact mic shaker boxes 99% of the time. Therefore I never think like "ooh I will have an amazing tone exactly like THIS" but more like I try to think how the gear would work with me rattling my shaker box. And most of the time I am way off But I do value these demonstration videos (yeah, review is most of the time not the term to use) as they are the next best thing to actually trying out the pedal myself.

And whoever wrote earlier that they were saddened/crushed/depressed/discouraged by the fact that it is nowadays so easy to put out mindless crap on a dozen streaming services, that's a strange (for me) way to see things. I make music because I like it. Doesn't matter if there are 10 or 10 million other people (or AIs) doing the same thing better, as good and worse, I still play and record what I enjoy and I get a kick out of doing that. If someone listens to it, great! If they do not like it, too bad. If they like it, awesome!

[dubkitty]

i was astounded when one of my loops on Soundcloud got like 1400 plays or something (apparently i somehow got a track on the main page). i was like "PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ME LIKE THIS SHIT???" it was especially odd that it got so many plays from Russia which i don't think of as a place where people listen to guitar solos run through the Randy's Revenge. to me, that was a hit record.

[Gone Fission]

I gather from casual awareness of currently produced shoegaze music that there seems to be a Russian audience for fuzzy droney warped loopy guitar music. (Is it up to 4th wave shoegaze yet? Probably. It’s practically becoming the new ska.)

[Kacey Y]

Skagaze when??

[Ghost Hip]

Skagaze when??

This has me thinking... if someone approached shoegaze in the vein of Swirlies, ska elements could fit right in.

Call it Mustard Pluggy Valentine.

I'll see myself out...

[dubkitty]

or even worse, ska Spirit of the Beehive. if they did that, i’d go steal their equipment truck myself.

[Kacey Y]

If I was able to afford that weird trumpet plug practice pickup thing I saw in the 90's, I feel like I would have eventually ran it through a big muff and digital reverb. I was so close.