| zmix wrote on Wed, 22 December 2010 01:01 |
Here is a question: "If plugins improve to the point where they approach analog gear, will records sound better?" It's a bit like asking "If restaurant grade cooking equipment is available in every kitchen, will home cooking improve? Or, given perceived ubiquity of ITB mixing, maybe it's more accurate to ask: "If microwave ovens had presets such as "brick oven", "hearth", "Mequite BBQ", would home cooking improve?" I suspect the novelty of "Mesquite BBQ" boiled water would wear off rather quickly.
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excellent point.
And I suppose my feeling is that presets such as "Brick Oven" on the microwave oven serve the needs of the marketing dept first, then consumers who have never cooked in a brick oven, and then only distantly followed by professional chefs who might find some use for the setting whilst still KNOWING it isn't really anything like COOKING in a brick oven .
(the substance almost but not completely unlike tea)
but the marketers deduce that someone (probably the pros and experienced) wants brick ovens, and, before their discussion poisons the well of the bigger pool potential buyers it's better to claim to 'include' that feature.
| zmix wrote on Wed, 22 December 2010 01:01 |
The point was also about referentialism. I am very interested in the differences between "intrinsic" and "referential" value when assigned to an object. In this case, does a plugin purporting to be something that it cannot possibly be, yet retaining some artifact of the original, need to be referenced to that thing to have value? I have listened to the UAD A800, and once I tweaked it a bit I found I could get some subtle peak reduction and add some low order harmonics, and in that way it's different than other processors out there. Maybe it will prove to be a solution to something.
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exactly.
I guess it seems clear to me (and the marketing folks) that it DOES need to be referenced in order to max sales potential.
"great new compressor plug in"s are rare to see advertised. "Neve" "SSL" "1176" "Fairchild" compressor plug ins are ubiquitous.
| zmix wrote on Wed, 22 December 2010 01:01 |
Possibly the theory of the "Uncanny Valley" could explain something?
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The uncanny valley is a hypothesis regarding the field of robotics. The theory holds that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness.
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interesting, and could be, I suppose.
But I suspect that there's something much more deeply threatening about humanoid machines than Studeroid software. <g>
