DIY Motown plug eq ?

Ugh, what an insufferable twat. Why must so many on youtube act like complete buffoons? It makes me genuinely sad for humanity that this sort of thing appeals to anyone.

The 'pro' audio world is filed with pontificators who merely research and repeat other people's experiences and opinions as if they were their own.

Take everything you read or hear on YouTube with a grain of salt.

I've said for some time now that as the world of the "name brand" pro mixers starts to wane in favor of smaller(read:cheaper) mixers, the more you'd see them get into "teaching".

And look at them now. All kinds of pay-to-learn videos where they teach you their pseudo-tricks and try to upsell you on their line of branded plugins..

Once when we were doing a home refi as self-employed people, the banks forensics questioned that our websites hadn’t been updated in a year, which indicated to them we were no longer in business……

There are studios in my area with gear that costs more money than god and neither can they afford to maintain all the stuff they advertise as having nor is it even possible for some of it due to discontinued parts, companies no longer functionally exist or are overseas, and many techs who knew how to fix certain pieces of equipment are sadly gone.

So they have the 500 series racks of utilitarian stuff anyone with a job can buy and frequently worse than what many people own at home or is available itb now. Not that they can run those plugs all over the mix because often the studio runs off some old Mac. And the big money mains? You better bring in whatever easily transportable nearfields you’re used to.

I imagine it’s even worse for guys who had racks and racks of accumulated stuff like Michael Brauer.

Also… triple post before I have to go but you and Ward will agree on this: new gear and plugs meant to sound cool that wastes time with no documentation or guides on how to integrate them into your work flow. They’re meant to sound cool without solving a problem. And nobody who has ever worked on a record would ever want it or think of it and prefers that it didn’t exist because it creates more problems that take more time to solve. Unlike old stuff that just happened to sound cool based on the tech available that solved problems. Tons and tons of new plugs and gear that don’t do anything but mess stuff up and never in a way that saves time like a good bus compressor or some of the crazier or subtle saturators.

The exact opposite of the Sonnox Oxford and Tokyo Dawn and Sound Radix plugs. Which all save time and are self descriptive or with indepth manuals for the weirder stuff. And the developers will answer questions about how to use it. And their easy mode “producer” stuff doesn’t fuck up the sound with crap processing with tons of artifacts like Waves emulations and “endorsed” plugs, Izotope (Nectar and Ozone mostly suck), or stock daw non linear plugins (most are crappy with the odd gem in every daw that half the time is licensed or bought).

My life would be easier if like the Izotope “AI” crap, jokey waves cla plugs, or any of the subscription bundles mostly filled with distorted crap (Slate, Plugin Alliance, Kush) didn’t exist. Same the Warm and Klark Technics and really almost all other clones and emulations. They create new problems

So do many others who don’t take to the internet to act obnoxious.