"To Tweak or Not to Tweak"
"that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous non-perfection,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them and
achieve the ultimate musicgasm?"

Well, to take arms in our case does not mean harikari but reading lots of forum posts by people of questionable pedigree, sending lots of money to people you just know have a tinfoil hat nearby just in case [not that there is anything wrong with that], and trying the tweaks out late at night when you know you won't get seen 'doing it'.

The deep dark secret is that most tweaks do do something. In fact, most conservative technology probably starts out in life as a tweak. You really think that Roosevelt didn't at least once or twice, before White Sands, think Einstein probably kept some extra tinfoil around the house?

The problem is, Is it a good tweak? And although most tweaks will not nuke your system, one has to consider the short and long-term harmful side-effects.

Every technology has harmful side-effects. Most technologies in use are used because the benefits were at least at one time seen to outweigh the side-effects. Sometimes we later discover that the side-effects are just too onerous. To avoid having to endure these side-effects, often for years, one has to pay attention upfront, to seek out and discover the harmful side-effects before a commitment is made.

This means paying attention to harmonics and tone, to compression and micro-dynamics, to naturalness and emotion. This means experiencing disappointment after disappointment, and shrinking bank accounts. But after all that, it is still a heckuva lot of fun.

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