Very true. It’s a reality our community has to navigate. It can just be frustrating. This conversation reminded me of an amusing story, though.
I have a cousin who is a professional sound engineer. He told me a story of one of his college instructors who did an internship at a studio where Jimi Hendrix came in to cut an album. Jimi was of course high as a kite during this. This instructor said Jimi sat down at the console with the headphones on listening to a cut. When he was done, he put the headphones down and said “Yeah, man. That’s great. But, can you make it sound…purple?”
Fortunately Z, DMS, Josh, and Metal only use “purple” to describe the actual physical color of a piece of gear.
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only use “purple” to describe the actual physical color of a piece of gear.
Well Donovan did Mello yellow, Prince Purple rain, Joni Mitchell Blue and the Beastie boys got more juice than Picasso got paint…Colours good with sound and music
Define wasting money… I bought the 58x. Though I liked it, tried the 6xx and I prefer the latter. I could have bought the 6xx from the start and saved that money. Or I can see it as spending money figuring out what I prefer.
Cancelling, by its definition should mean that you take a signal from a microphone, capture noise from outside, then invert it, and add it to the original source signal. This cancels out any unwanted noise. Passive, would just be isolating, blocking all noise from the outside world, using only dense materials and other damping techniques to achieve that. Like M0N pointed out, manufacturers use that word a lot. I’m guessing that it’s a more attractive buzzword to attach to their product, or it may just be ignorance on the part of the store or manufacturer listing it.
*EDIT: Better clarification and minor grammatical error.
