I will admit; I love cruising forums like Harmony Central for info/new gear reviews etc. You can learn alot if you read carefully. The problem is that alot of forumites are douchebags and ruin it for everyone. Let me explain. Guitarists can be very opinionated in their choice of gear and what they think works best, this is no suprise. My bandmate Matt and I are constantly busting each other chops about gear because we come from totally different sides of the field when it comes to that stuff; but we keep it fun. I notice there are new guitarists/forum members that really try to post questions or topics for help on forums like HC, only to get "e-bashed" by the veteran forumites with a million posts that think they need to ridicule new forum members....douchery, plain and simple. You often see a new guitarist asking an honest question about a piece of gear they own (maybe not the best, but it's what they can afford) just to have some elitist musician with "keyboard balls" totally grind them by saying things like; "uh...line 6 sucks". Stop the madness. The forums are great; give up the keyboard balls cause everyone's a tough guy sitting in their computer room typing away. Help out the new guys instead of treating them like "noobs". You might just see one of those "noobs" one day playing a packed stadium. : ) just my 2 cents.
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Agreed. The thing that amuses me about these type of people is that they don't remember where they started. I doubt most people had the money to spend $10,000 on gear when they first started out and even if they did, someone had to help them along. Each piece of gear, large and small, can work well in a particular application. There's nothing more amusing than watching a band struggle to put full stacks of amps on a stage at a small venue then BLAST their audience out of the room... literally. There is no need to ridicule someone for their own personal choice in gear. Different strokes for different folks.
Someone needs to look out for the little guy. Before I had my guitar tech (cough, JD) I would just plug in. I had no idea the difference it could make to your sound knowing your gear. Now I have a phat ass sound coming from my Hartke amp and Spector bass. Thanks to JD Gearhead.