about niceboy

[John Cooper]

I was on holidays and hadn't noticed what was happening here. I need to figure out how to turn on phpBB email-notification when a problem-report is filed. I didn't realize it was happening until someone PM'd me.

Here's what I just sent to niceboy:

Hi Niceboy,
I only very rarely do this, but I have received so many complaints lately about your behavior on planetz, that I have to act.
I've tried to read through your posts to understand what's going on, and generally, I can't really understand what you're saying most of the time. I know english isn't your first language, but you need to take more care in your posts to avoid nonsense, and rude/offensive behavior.
I have banned you from the forums for 7 days- to give you some time to cool down and do other things. Hopefully, if/when you return, your behavior will be more acceptable. If not, the ban will become permanent.

Thanks,
John

[dawman]

Happy New Years John Coop.

[siriusbliss]

Alllllrighty then...

Such a distraction.
He even hijacked his own threads!

Thanks John.

Happy new year!

G

[Nestor]

Hi John!

We were planning to write you a mail after this holiday, so not to bother you. Well, here you are already.

Have a nice time with your family and friends! Merry Christmas

[Bud Weiser]

Happy new year John !

Lots of positive feedback in 2013 and all the best !



Bud

[siriusbliss]

Here's my tool for great guitar feedback...
Actually a resonator...
http://www.vibesware.com/

[dante]

How many strings at once it does ?

[siriusbliss]

How many strings at once it does ?

One. But I can get it to start vibing the neighboring string with some adjustments to the sensitivity.

It's more subtle than a sustainiac.

G

[braincell]

Sounds great! I have to send my guitar to Maniac Music for a repair and new pickup this week.

[ShogunSpy]

Niceboy has a lot of time on his hands

[kensuguro]

yeah, I couldn't understand any of the posts. Didn't really judge him for that, but I was beginning to wonder if it was some sort of bot account with a very good AI pulling grammatically correct phrases and sentences from a dictionary of posts from other forums. So some parts of his posts sounded kind of trollish, but I thought it was naturally that concatenating posts from existing bits and pieces would end up containing a bit of trollism. But bot accounts usually post external links in the signature so I'm guessing it was a real person.

[JoPo]

And there was a lot of Scope screen... Not easy for a bot !

[garyb]

no, he's real. he's made more than a few purchases from S|C.

[dante]

Perhaps we could offer him one weeks planetz access per $500 purchases from S|C !

[Eanna]

It's a funny one with niceboy.

For all the words he typed (and he did type a few!), I struggled to understand exactly what he wanted to achieve.
I tried, twice.
I didn't even nail down what particular outboard processor (or amp, was it?) that he wanted to emulate.

There was no feedback in his use of these plugins and devices he was using. I just could not understand why he couldn't achieve the exact same thing by chaining two instances of the plugins/devices he wanted to use. It's not like he was going 'under the hood', hotwiring output to some input point - he was dealing with the public interfaces to the devices (the main inputs and outputs) - so, chaining them is no different to feeding the output of a plugin back into the input of that same plugin.

It was all too generic too. "We want to do the feedback technic" - feckit, what's the struggle dude? Chaining the devices not working out? So you're going D/A and A/D over MADI back into the same device - yes, there'll be latency! Not many samples, but it's still latency - it's digital!! With that, you'll get phasing, comb filtering, flanging, clipping, who knows...

Then, it was feedback in order to amplify... Again, yes, any feedback'ed signal will get loud, who hasn't had that event in their lives - kills speakers, ear drums, Midi interfaces, trips out electrical circuits, ...
Trick with creative feedback is to (a) control it, and (b) find the best 'insertion point' for the fed-back signal (a-la Minimoog's 'filter overdrive' - routing the headphone output to the filter input, and tweaking the level of that input to control it to taste).

It's a noble pursuit, feedback. I just would never expect feedback to sound 'right' in the digital realm. Same reason I have still three guitar/bass pedals - one overdrive, one distortion, one fuzz. They crap all over any digital emulation. Programs (aka digital) just don't do chaotic sensitive dependence well at all! That's why there still is analog outboard, and why the boutique analog stomp box market is thriving like never before...

If you know what you want to achieve, then in a digital solution, just do your best to emulate that with a chain of devices, or work with a DSP head to come up with a new bespoke device for you. Just don't expect Feedback'ing to work if those devices weren't designed for it!

He really did seem spend a few bob on his quest too - his Scope Projects were peppered with pay-for devices, and he obviously purchased S|C hardware too... Not to mention Waves stuff, and God knows what else. It was all far too 'headless', wasn't it...

I do wish him the best. He occasionally was relaxed and sometimes actually funny (purposefully!). But his approach with the 'technic', the forum and its members (he was banned from gearslutz too, back in the middle of 2012), and his stubborn misuse of English, well, it all just has to change, doesn't it...

[wayne]

The strange inflammation in my forehead and palm has disappeared!

[Bud Weiser]

Perhaps we could offer him one weeks planetz access per $500 purchases from S|C !

I´d throw in a free copy of Jan Hammer´s "The First Seven Days" as a teaser and one-time payback

Bud