Ok so I won't buy them until I see cabs I'm interested in. So by your definition am I a troll too? Or if I am not a troll is it because I used more eloquent language?
(If I am a troll am I pulling the triple reverse retriangulated troll?
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No, you're an advanced trigonometrist, and together we'll end up createing a tesseract out of this derail!
I mean, to me language matters the most in mediums where text and the occaisional gif are all we have for communication. Eloquence can easily be the difference between meaning one thing or the other, as I see it. As I said, I love disagreeing and talking about something I think is worthwhile, because I can learn something, or maybe I can help someone else. No big deal. But the moment I set up an absolute, there is no discussion, and the substance just degrades either to "I'm more right than you", or just insults. No one learns anything, and no one wants to move the conversation forward. I think trolling in general is intentionally incindiary, and there's always something deeper being expressed that is counterproductive to the original substance. And what he wrote is so minor as far as that goes, but I just disagree strongly that any particular mic is necessary to get your tone in the context of purchasing IRs from companies.
Even if you find a pack that has a cab you love in the real world, shot with the M160, it could still not work well with your guitar, because of all the reasons cabs, speakers, mics, rooms, and audio engineers are different. And IR is a combination of all those things, so what I'm trying to say more broadly is that no one combination of cab and speaker may get you there in an IR. And to reject outright any IR as being right for your tone before trying seems to me counterproductively limiting. I just think there is way more to an IR than what one thinks of about a cab and a mic in the real world. If you own the cab and the mic, you can make sure that cab with those particular speakers sounds the way you expect, that you have a good mic specimen, and you control not only the room, but the mic pre and all the engineering knowledge to shoot it however best works for you.
If you buy an IR, you control nothing, and it's a gamble, good or bad. I may not be right, but this is why I think outright rejecting IRs because of the exclusion of a mic in that language sounds like trolling. Again, to me, how you write it matters: "I love the M160 best in the real world, and that would be awesome." That shows some respect for the enormity of time and resources it takes to make a DynaCab pack. Cliff has talked about that, so has Justin York. To write as if it's a demand for someone to spend that much time and effort to capture your personal favorite comes across to me as trolling. This is too long winded of an explanation, but one of my problems in writing, never being a good editor!
