So I read the rant he posted about this, and it is seemingly all started about a compressor? Compressors are a real clickbait YT video favorite.

How many videos have you seen, where the presenter starts out with "No-one understands compression correctly, so let me tell you my version of it and see if I can explain it correctly". Clicking on one of those videos is the audio version of getting rickrolled.

About mentioning Dan Worrall and this guy in the same post. That's called that d*ckriding. Riding on someone else's reputation. And if anyone was going to launch some concerted effort to attack a product and the person behind it for "exposing all these fake plugins", don't you think it would be about an already established tool such as DDMF Plugin Doctor?

Instead of this guy putting effort into making some really good plugins himself, which have become an almost "industry standard" like Fabfilter etc. have; he would rather people pay for him to complain about other plugins? That way he can go buy more analog gear, right?

This is called a "pre-emptive scam", and is very common. Give me your money, and I will tell you those people are all scammers who are out to get your money.

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That tactic is usually described as a “preemptive scam” or a “preemptive strike” scam, but more broadly it’s a form of projection or misdirection — the scammer accuses others of exactly what they are doing in order to lower your guard.

Some common ways it’s labeled in fraud-awareness and psychology contexts are:

• Projection scam – the scammer projects their own bad intent onto others.
  
  
• Inoculation tactic – they “inoculate” you against doubting them by pre-framing all others as untrustworthy.
  
  
• Red flag: “Only I can be trusted” – a manipulation where someone claims everyone else is a scammer but me.
  
  
• Gaslighting through deflection – reframing your suspicion to make you distrust the wrong people.

In general fraud education, people just call this a classic red flag of a scammer: if someone insists that they alone are trustworthy and warns you that everyone else is trying to cheat you, that’s usually the one you should worry about.

 

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Because it is the topic: "AP Mastering believes the plugin industry has coordinated an attack against him"
His plugins are not the topic, but his person.

 

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You're wrong about that, though. He's using the views he gets to ask big companies for free gear "for videos"

His interface tests are a load of baloney. Putting some audio to loopback until it starts sounding bad is not proper testing. Proper testing is done using real lab equipment to measure.

"But that isn't real world testing", neither is looping the same audio a hundred times to say Behringer is terrible. Behringer is terrible, but not because it sounds like shit faster than two or three times more expensive interfaces. He's more than willing to wiggle his tail if you give him an overpriced interface.

Just watch Julian Krause's videos if you want proper, unbiased testing with hard data you can compare to other interfaces.

 

So because certain people have large egos here, we can't comment on someone else's overinflated ego? That is total whataboutism. Also this isn't talking ill of some 'random guy on youtube' , it's a specific guy on youtube for a specific reason, that's the complete opposite of random.

 

This guy made a whole video dedicated to a challenge I made in the comments on his 'best DAWs video' and then we got into in the comments of that video(best DAWs for mastering) and the only point he was making that reaper is the best DAW for mastering because he has a very specific workflow in it that suits him and therefore all other DAWs are inferior for mastering. Odd chap, I get a hyper-focused and obsessive autism vibe off of him but admittedly that's just speculating.

 

Nowhere did I write that, you are the one drawing conclusions.

 

He seems to be an expert at triggering people lol

 

In a post criticising people for having a go at AP mastering you finished with the point that anyone having a go at his ego should remember that the same people with large egos exist in this forum. If your point wasn't "...therefore you can't judge him for that", then what was it?

 

That's his M.O., get attention to my channel with massive overreaching claims that'll trigger as many people as possible.