synthpenguin
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yeah, I don't understand the resistance to the advanced controls at all.
they're on separate, clearly labeled pages you can totally ignore.
the fractal amps sound great without touching them. it's not like "oh wow this sounds awful so I guess I have to understand what power tube bias excursion is".
and if you DO want to go to those pages—maybe for fun, or maybe because you have settings you love, but you want that extra 1%—you actually don't have to know what they do. it's a digital model: you won't break anything. you can just mess with them all and have fun, and if it sounds bad, turn it back or reset the whole channel.
if you're not interested in knowing what x or y does, that's fine (most "pro guitarists" don't either; even a lot of them who did experiment with these things were blindly messing with real gear and breaking it all the time lol), but you don't even have to know to turn the knobs and flip the switches.
like unless you're a pro sound designer (in which case you wouldn't be having these misgivings), it's supposed to be fun to do this stuff. or at least inspiring and creative! a lot of people seem to (inadvertently) set themselves up for frustration and option paralysis by digging into aspects they don't have to and they don't enjoy (see also: people who get overwhelmed by large IR collections, but then create and load large IR collections anyway).
not to be too harsh (I don't mean it that way), but... after going away from guitar for a while, fully going into synths, and then coming back to guitar, it's pretty apparent how many (online) guitarists are really obsessed with finding ways to enjoy their gear and setups less or make them less fun to use. I don't get it at all.
they're on separate, clearly labeled pages you can totally ignore.
the fractal amps sound great without touching them. it's not like "oh wow this sounds awful so I guess I have to understand what power tube bias excursion is".
and if you DO want to go to those pages—maybe for fun, or maybe because you have settings you love, but you want that extra 1%—you actually don't have to know what they do. it's a digital model: you won't break anything. you can just mess with them all and have fun, and if it sounds bad, turn it back or reset the whole channel.
if you're not interested in knowing what x or y does, that's fine (most "pro guitarists" don't either; even a lot of them who did experiment with these things were blindly messing with real gear and breaking it all the time lol), but you don't even have to know to turn the knobs and flip the switches.
like unless you're a pro sound designer (in which case you wouldn't be having these misgivings), it's supposed to be fun to do this stuff. or at least inspiring and creative! a lot of people seem to (inadvertently) set themselves up for frustration and option paralysis by digging into aspects they don't have to and they don't enjoy (see also: people who get overwhelmed by large IR collections, but then create and load large IR collections anyway).
not to be too harsh (I don't mean it that way), but... after going away from guitar for a while, fully going into synths, and then coming back to guitar, it's pretty apparent how many (online) guitarists are really obsessed with finding ways to enjoy their gear and setups less or make them less fun to use. I don't get it at all.
