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Originally Posted by jim1960

I'm not alone in feeling exasperated by your responses. There have been private conversations where others have expressed the same feeling.

The issue is that, very often, you either offer bad advice or you disparage good advice when it's offered by another. Then, when challenged, you become insistent and unpleasant to deal with. Quite some time ago, I resolved to minimize my interactions with you. Doing that allows me to continue to happily be a part of this community. I enjoy my interactions here and I enjoy trying to help people navigate the gear minefield, helping people better understand the recording process, helping people improve their technique, helping people spend their money wisely, etc.

Others here are doing the same thing and I don't think I'm incorrect in saying we do it out of kindness. We try to help people avoid the mistakes that so many of us made when we started and we do that without an agenda or any ulterior motive unless you count the joy I (and perhaps others as well) feel in helping those who come to this forum seeking help and advice.

I've watched you get into arguments here with people who are clearly miles upon miles ahead of you in recording knowledge about things are aren't even slightly controversial. I've seen you try people's patience. How many times have I seen you discourage people from treating their recording spaces as if you had some secret knowledge the rest of us missed somehow? People come here trying to move forward but your advice will often have them spinning their wheels in place or moving backwards. When I say it's "exasperating," that's me being kind.

one thing about so-called "experts"..some reason they're always indignant when they're disagreed with....even keeping score. There's always more ways than one. The op doesn't even have a daw setup. The fact is he specifically asked about pickups. Maybe I should preference all my comments with imho. Here....imho you can get very acoustic sounding recordings using artificial means, other than mics. I personally like a mic source, among others, but there's 100's of tools. And you've never heard my recordings....so you have less than zero idea where I stand...except on accepting bs. And I hope that's clear.