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This fake button digital nonsense does nothing for me; I need that fake knob analog placebo effect! It sounds crazy but most sound engineers have accidentally
by nerd_stuff 11y ago
This fake button digital nonsense does nothing for me; I need that fake knob analog placebo effect!
It sounds crazy but most sound engineers have accidentally done this to themselves. You tweak a knob, hear the difference, and then noticing the whole channel was muted and wonder what it was that you just heard change.
- disantlor 11y agoThe alarming thing is how that can happen to you over and over and you still you're SURE you'd never fall for it.
- mattdotc 11y agoNot to dismiss what you're saying, but in this case the 'client button' is for tricking the annoying client into thinking you're making a change when you've really done nothing. This is kind of the same idea as throwing in a duck[1] or hairy arms[2]: 1: http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ 2: http://www.oliverburkeman.com/blog/posts/the-theory-of-the-hairy-arm-the-tactical-benefits-of-making-deliberate-mistakes http://www.oliverburkeman.com/blog/posts/the-theory-of-the-h...
- mich41 11y agoDigital placebo can work. I was once debugging some issue with my laptop's multimedia buttons driver. I found some tweak which helped: enable the tweak, reboot - works fine, disable tweak, reboot - no go. Tested repeatedly several times. I filed a bug report and received an answer that my tweak absolutely cannot work. The tweak was disabled at the time and the button didn't work. I pressed it again after reading this email and boom - it works. I swear. I figure my mind must have been believing so much in futility of pressing this button that it didn't even bother pushing it all the way down. Scary stuff.