Thanks for hosting this forum, Dave! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: strangersound
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 01:22:52 am
content: It's been nice to have a forum to stop in at daily and shoot the breeze. I got my start on the internet on forums...they were the original social media. But forums come and go and I'd been without a good place to hang for a while, so it's been real cool jumping in the forum here.My first regular forum was Metal Manics. This was a magazine that catered to the more extreme genres that the rest of the mainstream mags ignored. Well, back in the late 90's when I got online, I managed to follow my interests at the time and ended up at their forum. Met a lot of cool people on there and I'm even still connected with several of them to this day. As things go, the magazine eventually went belly up and the forum went with it. It came back in other incarnations, but was never the same as the original family there.After that, I ended up on the Musicplayer Forums, which was the forums for EQ Magazine, Guitar Player, Bass Player, Keyboard, Electronic Musician, and all that family of magazines. I've always had project studios and been recording/doing audio stuff for well over the last twenty years, so it was a good place to hang because I was heavy into it at the time.Now that was a great group of people. The main forum for general chat was Craig Anderton's forum, author of Electronic Projects for Musicians...a classic and a man with too many other titles/jobs to list, the guy is a legend. Anyway, his forum was where everybody just chilled and talked. It was the "Sound, Studio, & Stage", but he likened it to a party where everybody was all hanging out talking about all kinds of things and as long as nobody was hanging from the chandeliers and getting the cops called, it was all good.Well, we had a good long run there, but eventually business intervened like it usually does and the whole shebang got moved over to Harmony Central. Musicplayer still stayed around, but most of the family went to HC with the move.Well, HC forums were a major clusterfuck before we ever got there. Imagine an unruly group of YouTube comment trolls running a whole site with 40 something sub forums...yeah, so needless to say the transition was rough and the original vibe had been disrupted.Anyway, at some point HC decided to change the forum software and they managed to screw up the whole place worse than anything Micro$oft could ever manage. Seriously. They decided (probably by some sales guy in a suit) that using this help desk type forum software would be better. Well, needless to say, it was not. They literally had links coming in from years of activity that if you did a Google search on something music instrument related, they would be the whole first few pages of results. They 404'd it all. No kidding. To this day you can still do a search and get a link on the first page of Google that will take you to HC, but it's a redirect. The original link and thread is long gone. That's just one example of the nightmare they unleashed on our community.So this was just all too much and most of us lost interest. I'm sure some of the people are still there, but I just got connected with all my contacts from there on Facebook and such and cleared out.I was getting heavy into blogging and web design and other stuff as well, so I just kinda drifted out of there. But the tagline at the Musicplayer forums was "Expert Forums" and no kidding, these were forums with actual experts for moderators and members alike.Famous producers, engineers, artists, writers, and all kinds of sound people from all fields of the music business populated those forums. I learned a lot of stuff there. I had some of the best discussions I've had online to this day there. If you had a question about anything, you'd get a range of helpful answers in record time. It was a great place and one I remember fondly, as I'm sure you can tell.The point of this convoluted walk down memory lane is to say that this forum has that same vibe. Excellent signal to noise ratio. No annoying feedback loops. Etc.And I just wanted to thank Dave and everybody here for welcoming people into the forums here. It feels like the old "Expert Forums". Cheers!

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 01:31:07 am
content: Thanks.I'm a forum junkie and I think this one is pretty

author: strangersound
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 01:34:34 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on March 08, 2016, 01:31:07 amMe too. And yeah, it's a real Bobbie Dazzler!

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 01:35:44 am
content: Indeed, huge thanks to Dave for this forum. Presumably it is paying for itself and then some for Dave.In the manner of another thread currently running here:https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/favorite-youtube-channels/The EEVBlog forum is in my top 5 online forums I frequent daily.The others areCreative Cowhttps://www.creativecow.net/particularly the Audio Professionals forumGear Slutzhttps://www.gearslutz.com/board/particularly "Remote Possibilities", and "GeekSlutz", and "Connectors, cables, stands and accessories"DV Infohttp://www.dvinfo.net/conf/particularly :All Things Audio"DVX Userhttp://www.dvxuser.com/V6/Particularly "Location Sound / Post Audio" and "Lighting Gear", and "DIY Gear"

author: strangersound
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 01:57:41 am
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on March 08, 2016, 01:35:44 amCool. I'll check those out. I think I was registered on Gearslutz years ago, but I'm not recalling for sure. Those are relevant to my interests, so thanks!

author: Muttley Snickers
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 02:10:56 am
content: Yes thanks Dave it really is a good place to be.....In the short time that I have been here my spelling, grammar and literary skills have improved ten fold not to mention my ability to interact with others in an online medium which I had never done much of prior, my interest in particular fields of electronics has increased dramatically and I now crave for more knowledge although I probably left my run a bit late.Anyway as others have said many thanks for your efforts, they have changed some of us for the better and at this rate I might soon need to find a forum for people that are becoming addicted to forums.

author: RobertoLG
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 02:19:19 am
content: I have to add my thanks with all the other nice folks that make it a great place to come, thank you very much!

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 02:39:54 am
content: I find it funny, when you use the new slightly wobbly/unstable camera stand. We can then suddenly see these feet (bare), on our screens.I've only been on this forum for a few days or so now. And I am also finding it a friendly, welcoming place.I've been lurking for a fair bit of time on here as well.Yes, Many Thanks!If you were ever in the UK, I would absolutely NOT have you round. There would be too much danger that I'd unintentionally fall asleep for a long while. On waking, find that my prized Electronic's/collection stuff has been put on a massive youtube teardown adventure. So it would go from ...Tear-down on youtube, to me inTears, and refusing to ever have you-down again, sorry. So it isdown under you will remain for me (Joke, in the UK we tend to call Australia "Down Under").

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 03:18:55 am
content: Also (to Dave), I would NOT have felt right, posting this on these forums. But since this is a "thank you thread".Thank you for (apparent, to me at least), being a very kind/knowledgeable and gentle "King Solomon", father figure, as regards the free scope (competition/giveaway) and rules you have written.I can see nothing but great thought and kind/sensible/practicable construction in the VERY WELL THOUGHT OUT INDEED, rules you have come out with.Until you (as an individual), actually try thinking up and writing out rules like that, oneself for real, it is difficult to appreciate how difficult such tasks can actually be.Attempting to be fair to so many different (world wide) people, and being the piggy in the middle, between the scope manufacturer and the forum people, must make it that much harder.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 03:52:48 am
content: Quote from: Richard Crowley on March 08, 2016, 01:35:44 amThe forum sponsor Findchips/SupplyFrame is what allowed me to go full time youtubing back when I did that. Youtube wasn't nearly enough.

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 03:58:23 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on March 08, 2016, 03:52:48 amAnd to thank you indirectly, this forum is only one that is excluded from adblock, ghostery, noscript and etc in my browser add-on.

author: CatalinaWOW
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 08, 2016, 05:38:30 am
content: I'll add my thanks. Lots of folks with good stuff to say and listen to. The few videos I have watched are good, though I limit myself due to the cost of bandwidth in the sticks where I live.