OT: Massive Misconceptions you had about sounds before you knew what you know now.

[Operator]

Oh here's another one

 

3) You can judge the quality of a delay by how clean the repeats are. A delay with repeats that are identical to the original signal is the most desirable.

[eti]

 

All completely true.

 

 

Not really

[RadioSilence]

I loved Extreme's "Pornograffitti" album, and I thought all the pinched harmonics were feedback I still love "Pornograffitti"

 

I still have a soft spot for that album. my first gig was Extreme at Whitley Bay ice rink in 1992. about a year or so before I discovered the Sex Pistols and realised the error of my ways

[hugbot]

Computer music is easy.

[lolque?]

It took me awhile to grasp that gain doesn't have to be dimed to bring the HEAVY! Playing in a band will lead to a quick reevaluation of the tone you thought was badass, everytime it seems...

 

 

Agreed. Same with reverb

[humancertainty]

I thought that a whammy bar was operated by rotating the bar itself clockwise or anti-clockwise depending on how you wanted to change the pitch. I still don

[dman11]

I used to sing AC/DC's "Dirty deeds and the thunder jeep!" like forever. my friend never corrected me as I sounded like an ass.

[Kid_A]

i love my -77! but i also run a boogie 1X12 and a carvin tube power amp with a boogie extension cab. the -77 dirty sounds like {censored}, i can't be without great dirt.

I disagree, the 77 dirt is actually ok... but it depends on the music you are making... I remember coming here years ago and it was all toobscreamers into valve amps... i realise now the sound i was after was digital distortion and solid state power... who knew?!

[imbuedblue]

I always hated treble back when I was playing a Fender Twin Reverb. My treble knob was between completely off or 4 tops on that amp. Then, I got an EL84 amp and started running treble boosters.

[OMTerria]

Mo' money, mo' problems. Oh wait...

[onyxrhino]

When I was 12, my dad would play U2's Achtung Baby a lot in the car. I had no idea what I was hearing, but I had a vague idea that the sounds were computer generated - I'd be listening to what I now know is a guitar riff, and thinking it was made by a computer program. Obviously, that's retarded, but hey, I just didn't know - I had no concept of how these noises were made, or what might be going on on the "other side" of the speakers. Anyone else have wierd misconceptions like that?

 

 

weird, I had a similar misconception regarding that album when it came out. I was just learning how to play guitar then, and I heard some songs off that album and I remember thinking, "well I could always ditch the guitar and just play keyboards and stuff like U2".

[RadioSilence]

I'm listening to Achtung Baby now on Spotify

 

Good times

 

(last good thing U2 ever did)

[LSDis4me]

When I was 17 I switched out the "treble" pickup in my Gibson Firebrand. I changed the neck pickup, and was disappointed that I didn't hear any difference when on the treble switch.

[Beyer160]

When I was a wee lad, I thought the songs on the radio were being performed live by a band at the station. Once while in the car with my mom, there was an Emergency Broadcast System test. I asked her- "What do they mean, emergency? Like, if one of the singers fell down and got hurt?" She thought for a second, and replied "yes."

This was back when everybody thought there was a real possibility the world might be destroyed in a nuclear holocaust on any given day, so I'm glad my mom decided not to explain that one to me.

[Ryan.]

i used to think teles were awesome

lol so stupid back then

[BAXANDALL]

One misconception I had was that I thought that was really vomiting being recorded on that Butthole Surfer's album until I learned it was just a can of soup being poured into the toilet.

[RoboPimp]

gear makes a difference

[BAXANDALL]

Original sounding bands can't make money.

[Hiwatt Bob]

lol

[c+t in b]

i once thought it was possible for a guitar to realistically portray the sounds of a synthesizer

[Preacher]

(last good thing U2 ever did)

 

 

Respectfully, no.

 

 

To the intent of the post:

 

 

[RadioSilence]

 

Respectfully, no.

 

 

Really? I haven't heard a single song I've liked on any subsequent album, though admittedly what I've heard has been mostly singles.

But educate me though, are there hidden gems on those later albums?

[SnorkelMonkey]

Oasis' song "Wonderwall" Totally thought that it was a cello but a friend told me it was an ebow about 4 years ago on a distorted guitar. I have no real way of knowing but I think I looked at the players for the song and there was no cello or anything.

 

 

I think they used a mellotron. It's a real cello played by a real person but sampled on tape like 40 something years ago.

[SnorkelMonkey]

Me? I used to think that this part @ 3:05 was a guitar.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU

[Beyer160]

 

Really? I haven't heard a single song I've liked on any subsequent album, though admittedly what I've heard has been mostly singles. But educate me though, are there hidden gems on those later albums?

 

 

Maybe he means the last good thing U2 ever did was War.