Does anyone else hate it when - or is utterly bewildered by - someone demonstrating thousands of Rands of tone generating gear - painstakingly selected over years to get it just absolutely perfect - records it with a camera microphone as a "demo"?
Bonus rage points for:
* Playing so quietly (to avoid the problem below) that you are able to hear the strings acoustically, thus completely confusing any possible assessment of the tone
* Playing loudly enough that the camera microphone totally overdrives, leaving a distorted mess
* Adding insult to injury by apologising for their playing. No one cares in a tone demo whether you can only strum an A-chord or whether you sound like Yngwie - except when our attention is drawn to it
* Demonstrating a modelling device that could be plugged directly into a recording device, but recording instead the sound coming out of the PC speakers, monitors, or guitar amp... with the camera mic ???
I don't hate the people that do this, but I hate the videos. After spending so much money on gear, could they not borrow the neighbour's karaoke microphone, put it in front of the guitar speaker, and plug it into their on-board sound-card?
p.s. Special extra bonus rage for demoing a guitar or its pickups, specifically, slathered in so many effects that you wouldn't be able to tell whether it was a guitar or a flugelhorn
