7 Sep
2013
7 Sep
'13
11:14 a.m.
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 09:30:19PM -0400, Al Thompson wrote:
On 09/05/2013 04:20 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
An engineer want's to buy a mixer etc. and not a kernel. Known companies
selling professional mixers don't advertise that they have Alps faders
inside, this is done by companies who sell amateur mixers.
Of course it is!! Professional grade companies use P&Gs! From what I remember of the ads in e.g. Studio Sound
during
the heydays of big analog mixers, most of the big names used
P&G, and that *was* as selling point.
But there is indeed a very clear difference in how things are
marketed to professionals, prosumers and amateurs, even if the
first two seem to converge somewhat. If I see a plugin GUI with
rack handles, screws, shiny surfaces, an agressive color scheme
designed to stand out, big trademarks or any text yelling at me,
an illogical layout or any non-functional graphics, I know that
I shouldn't waste my time with it.
Ciao,
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