bitflipper
The Gearslutz community seems to consist of 20% who really know their stuff, and 80% who happily regurgitate whatever they've previously read on Gearslutz. No surprise that there's a consensus.

i do not trust anything i read on gear slutz.
i almost never hear really decent recordings there either.
and then, when i do hear one, it's REALLY good!
 
 
i always figure, if somebody's spouting a bunch of bs about gear, ok,, let's hear their recordings.
 
bottom line.
 
 

batsbrew 
i always figure, if somebody's spouting a bunch of bs about gear, ok,, let's hear their recordings.
 
bottom line.

I'm with you on that. One of the reasons I try not to spout much BS. 

I never spout about what I have. List it? Yeah. NP.
 
I own 5 of those:
 
Fab Pro-L
IKM Stealth
Ozone 7
Elephant (not the upgrade though, I'm still on 3.11)
Waves (actually all of their limiters in Mercury)
 
 And I own two of the honorable mentions:
 
Slate FG-X
PSP Xenon
 
 
So I'm batting 500 as the saying goes.
 

You tell them, bapuji, you tell them.

bitflipper
The Gearslutz community seems to consist of 20% who really know their stuff, and 80% who happily regurgitate whatever they've previously read on Gearslutz. No surprise that there's a consensus.
 

A few years ago, Charlie Clouser (NIN, White Zombie, SAW movies, AHS) took part in a discussion and answered tons of questions. That's the most valuable/interesting info I've ever read on GS.

i missed that...
that IS the one thing i do dig over there,
when they get pros to come in and share their techniques and insights....
 
big classified section is a bit overwhelming.....
 
i do hit the Expert Question & Answer Archives every so often.
 
 

i mostly read the mastering and acoustics forums, and lately the live sound forum. Those three have the best signal-to-noise ratio.
 
But there is no doorman to screen participants, so in the mastering forum you'll often get the self-styled experts and teenage "producers" spouting ignorant nonsense. However, on that forum the trolls are often smacked down with a "quiet, the grownups are talking" response that always makes me smile.

bitflipper
 
But there is no doorman to screen participants, so in the mastering forum you'll often get the self-styled experts and teenage "producers" spouting ignorant nonsense. However, on that forum the trolls are often smacked down with a "quiet, the grownups are talking" response that always makes me smile.

Note to self: Keep the bapu humor off GearSkanks.

Note to bapu: having a sense of humor does not make you a troll.

The studio build tbreads are sometimes interesting. ...some dude in Spain building a 30000 sq ft room in their extra acreage etc