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Originally Posted by Judders
"Colour" and "mojo" are most often seen in advertising copy, and then regurgitated on Gearslutz
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yesyesyes. that is soooo. :-))
to state that absolute clear upfront: I am a fan of clean eqing and a hater of saturation and such nonsense.
I dont want to rant again about the in my opinion idiotic use of mojo, voodoo, coloring, saturation and so on to degrade a signal and on the other hand the same people are bullshitting about 96khz samplerate as minimum and calling all that subjective - no, I want to tell you that I got to manage to listen to some of the Gearslutz-pros that work with mojoed gear: everything I heard was disgusting degraded noise. really, imagine a 50s average vinyl-player pushed through a 60s tube radio which has its volume cranked up to 80%. really funny. not, not funny. idiotic.
for me its a no-go from the moment I hear or read such terms as mojo and analog or saturation. if I want to distort something, thats ok. I am a great distorter. but I never would call that hyped telephone sound "colored". its bullshit, it is simply distorted. to make out of such terms a religion and having people believe in such a religion thats what I call marketing.
and the top of all that crap was delivered by Neil Young and Jack White (I am a fan of both) when they recorded for the sheer sake of being analog and retro and magic and voodoo and analog in a recording booth from the 40s and then spread that bullshit on iTunes in 24bit/96khz.
again I have a feature reqeust for that forum: I would like to have a huge facepalm-smilie ... :-)))
so: in my opinion a eq has to eq and a compressor has to compress and both have to add to the signal as less artifacts as possible. if I would like a shitty sound I would have kept my vinyl-player from the 70s and would listen to vinyl still today. but I dont want a shitty sound. so go away with analog, tubes, mojo or whatever. glad that these things are down the drain of history.
but some people cant let go ... sigh, when we all know, that in former times everythign was better than today, everything! :-)))) what a bs ...