Talk but not walk?

Hi Glupson

"Thanks for that short description about wood. It does seem like a tedious work with lots of trial and error. I am sure with some experience the error part gets smaller, but still. To get to that experience, lots of wood must have gone to dumpster or wherever else."

You know how people say "they do" something? Well there’s a big difference between making a flash attempt and living inside of an art, any art. From the other side of the fence (past plug & play) there is so much potential for playing our systems the average hobbyist has no idea until they start there own Tuning journey. I don't just preach it, I live it.

I do two things in this hobby. One is try to find that perfect sound for everyone through creating and methodizing it. The other is do my best to share that there is more if someone wants it.

These forums are very weird for me, as you have gathered. It’s weird because I am somewhere between a full service Acoustical, Mechanical and Electrical inventor and an extreme listener myself. I don’t like the way the hobby is marketed, I believe and encourage DIY as much as I do push my own designing, I believe in the whole and not just a small part and I enjoy watching people move from "Fixed" to "Variable". I don’t just say "everything affects everything else" I have done it every day of my life, literally. LOL do you know what my work is? Music. Done you know what my hobby is? Music. Do you know what I do with my spare time? Music. Do I have a life outside of music? Nope!

I also believe everyone here is the master of their own system and they can start and stop anywhere they want, but someone has to get their hands in the saw dust, or find the right pitch on the metal cnc speed. Someone has to listen to every inch of every room and come up with a way to voice that room. Someone has to take apart those components to see how they tick, and then build them back up mechanically efficient and variable. Someone has to know this audio thing inside and out. And most important, someone has to build and create a method of tuning that allows us to play every recording any way we want.

Glupson, you criticize me for my writing. Maybe your right maybe I’m a terrible communicator. Others get hung up on whatever they do, nothing I can do about that, it’s the nature of public forums. I’m not here to join a club or change who I am or hide behind a username or keyboard. I’m simply here to turn people on to Tuning.

I hope this thread never goes away and I also hope readers can be encourage to take that next step, cause it’s out there waiting for them. I hope someday we get past the talking and share the walking. We’ve covered 33 pages of personalities, but walking doesn’t have to be walking in a continuum circle. Walking in this hobby could actually turn out to be walking forward, not in a circle, not backward and not sidetracks. That’s the only reason you see Tunees stopping by but not staying.

Maybe someday this thread will step up to the plate, who knows.

Michael Green

Michael Green,

I think I do get the sense of where you stand in all of this, but do not forget one detail and I am not mentioning it in any bad way. Everyone has to eat and pay electricity, etc. so it is fine.

If you get paid for something, it is not a hobby. It is a job you are lucky to enjoy.

In a sense, it does not give you any free time, but it is still a job. Kind of, working after hours thinking you are having fun while you are actually perfecting what you do for money.