Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: MOTM

previous by date index next by date
  topic list  

Subject: Re: [motm] Re: modules review

From: jhaible@...
Date: 2002-06-19

> Has anyone ever looked at a moog
modular on a scope? Spikes, overshoots, crosstalk everwhere.
It looks like an electron battlefield.>

Dangerous, dangererous!

I have seen ∗other∗ people being flamed and hunted to the end of the
world for remarks like this. I'm curious if Peake will start a 4-years-long
anti-Arrick campaign for Moog-bashing now.

As for that review, I was ∗surprised∗ to see it on that huge public
forum AH, posted by somebody who really likes that system
in general. I guess in a less heated climate, such a review would
not cause so much ripple at all. The effect is magnified by those
gentlemen who always demonize MOTM for being "overspec'ed".
If it wasn't for them, and their emphasis that you can get the same
quality from ".com" for less, it would not create such a fuzz. So
I feel sad for the reviewer who has caused more trouble than he
intended. But it's not his fault (and you can hardly blame Paul
either, for quoting from the biggest public web forum for analogue
synthesizers - it's like taking a clip from a big newspaper and
showing it around in the family). It∗'s the fault of those who make
a "good vs. evil" affair out of it. They are feeding the flames
higher and higher, and then they are surprised when the first
big explosion happens on a side they didn't expect.
Just my opinion, of course.

JH.