Even the greatest compressors couldn't make contact on a Doc Gooden out of phase sinewave curveball.

https://www.instagram.com/pitchingninja/reel/DDMwN88O-Bz/

 

This guy's content has been popping up a lot as of late. I don't have the technical background that would allow me to truly argue the claims that he makes in his various videos. I will say this. People have been using their DAW's stock plugins to get amazing sounding records for decades. It's always been that it's not about the gear, but how you use it. You probably can get many stock plugs to sound like their expensive, third party counterparts. As others have mentioned though, this might be a more time consuming process. The outboard gear emulations of brands like UAD are definitely very close (imo). Can you get similar sounds from stock compressor plugins? Sure. Doesn't mean I don't want to try out some UAD plugs.I have a bunch actually.

The main thing... I find his online persona to be a bit grating. He's tapping into the classic "negative engagement" strategy. It's effective. We're talking about his content. But I'd also suspect that there's a Dunning Kruger affect at play. He's obviously a bright guy. But I don't trust that his own experiments aren't without some sort of bias baked in, which is affecting his conclusions. But again, I don't have the knowledge to debunk him, nor do I believe that to be a good use of my time. I'll just keep making music.

 

This. And this AP Mastering guy is the antithesis to this in the way he presents and argues stuff, smacking of elitism and superiority whilst at the same time discouraging the art of making music. Take note, the "ART". I'm sure Van Gogh could use dollar shop paints and come up with a far better painting than me with top grade professional paints. It's not the tools you have, nor how good they are, but how effective you are in creating your art with them, and this AP Mastering goon totally misses this point looking at music creation and production as a black/white, good/bad, right/wrong type of thing instead of the artistic expression it is, regardless what tools you use and manipulate to YOUR needs and taste. F*** this guy and block his YouTube channel would be my advice as nobody needs this much elitism and negative in their lives

 

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Plugin developers don't care about our sound. They only are about the money they can earn.
Marketing is everything, so I think in some parts the scam is real.

 

I buy plugins for the UI, not their sound.

 

Last edited: Apr 14, 2025