Community Role Discussion (was: MOD community video and website page)

Contribute
#31

There’s something positive in his post :

I think he’s right to point out that MOD devices strength is their uniqueness. The products themselves stand out from the competition. It’s good news. Now you might need to advertise a bit more on that aspect.

The video is nice and that’s cool that the community participated and had fun. It may not help you sell the product but as long as it didn’t need too much effort on your side, it could be considered as a fun exercise that puts some light on the community. Maybe there are some misunderstandings between its realistic goal and what people expect as proper advertisement.

So let’s be positive and consider this video a way to show MOD has a cool community. I’d be happy to participate in another one (dude, how dare you make a funky tune without the funkypou ?).

5 Likes
#32

Indeed! “Who d’ya get ya funky from?” Not Bootsy, it’s @funkypou!!!

Thanks for your kind words, @spunktsch! Love your Metal Groovebox video, it does exactly what you propose.

Isn’t that the best combination of all? Ableton has proven to be irreplaceable in my workflow, a Launchpad or Push is a phenomenal addition, Helix is fantastic (I own a rack one), and between them there are sounds, loopers, synths, and top quality effects and digital processing. I’m happy for you.

Thanks for the update. All the way to revision C it was 6 slots only and a major source of complaint at the Line6 forum. I didn’t really research further as I acquired my Helix for just about 300 Euro more than the HX Stomp.

Your earned your “reputation” by means of your repeated snarky and ill-tempered comments, which regardless of being right or wrong hit the community the wrong way. Most, if not all of us, agreed with the issues regarding the lesser quality of amp sims, the lack of superior models, the limited IR loader, the inconsistency of effects levels, naming, values, documentation etc. In fact, just recently I posted something to that exact effect – fix the levels of the plugins! People didn’t necessarily disagree with you there, but your repeated rambling long past you had returned your Dwarf was indeed unnecessary. @Elk_wrath even discussed that with you, in which his opinion was likewise that your points were correct but the manner of saying them was not the best.

(I was young when I learnt that “the one who screams loses the argument even when one is right.”)

We too interacted and discussed in the past, and I wholeheartedly supported you in your decision to return your Dwarf, go for the pedals that made you feel happy, and move on with your life. It is you who, in spite of requesting to be deleted from the forum more than once, keep coming back repeatedly to grind your old grievances.

It looks like Mod Dwarf was a major trauma in your life – damn you, Benn Jordan! Guy is a good seller, showcasing a Duo X made you buy a Dwarf! Hire him, Mod Audio!

But now you have a nice set up, with much more enjoyable and higher quality effects, so if I may give some advice, you should look forward to years of enjoyment and good music, and hopefully overcome the sad mark left in your heart, move on and be happy.

If I may quote your own post of March of 2022:

image

May you live a happy and fulfilling life.

(Over. And. Out.)

4 Likes
#33

My dear @gianfranco,

Wretched me! “For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.” (Romans 7:19, as per the NIV)

I believe I have tried my best to be positive, productive, helpful, informative, generally upbeat, and to put a hopeful outlook on things, in face of adversity and never-ending problems. True, I do not run your company and am not aware of your recurring displeasures, but still I try to be constructive and assist you and MOD in any capacity I have, be it professional help or a financial contribution to the reboot.

It was not my intention to demotivate you and I feel sorry that you get hate emails on a daily basis, while also facing financial hardships, technical and logistic issues, while also juggling a family and other obligations. Trust me, I have been through similar experiences and it doesn’t feel good. My feeling here is that you are badly worn out, so that a comment with a minor dose of criticism hits you right between the eyes.

Sadly, anyone in a position of leadership, relevance, prominence, importance, or any denomination that might fit, is subject to criticism. You, as the ModFather and CEO of now Mod Audio UG are no different. Within our community you are a hero, and the efforts of your team, small and badly overworked, do not go unnoticed. New improvements are repeatedly praised, setbacks are mostly met with encouragement, several of us put cash down to keep your company alive, many of us contributed with either content, expertise, coding, unofficial technical support, pedalboards, testing, etc etc etc. On my side specifically, I tried to address the anger of backers, the recurring noise issue, solve some specific users’ problem here and there, give business advice during the reboot days, and even personal advice for you at some point.

I am now faced with some tough decisions, and the need to take care of my health, embark in a different and unsuspected career that opened to me, rebuild some of the knowledge and skill in other areas that I had in the past and are now in demand, and most importantly be with my kids. To focus on what’s important and what’s feasible, leaving old grievances and even some dreams behind (be them silly or valid). With that I am offloading a lot of music gear, and I must confess my MOD has been on the exit door for a while now, due in large part to the stance of Mod Audio regarding the Duo X.

And most importantly, I really don’t have the time and energy for forums anymore. Even if my Mod doesn’t sell and/or an instance where it can be put to use presents itself, at this point I have already contributed what I could to this forum and cannot undertake a task (video editing or any other) if not for financial compensation, and even that within strict limits. This post was already a stretch, while also another instance of neglect towards what’s most important to me in this world.

Therefore this is the appropriate time for me to say farewell to this lovely community.

It is my sincere wish that MOD grows and thrives, that the team gets rewarded for their hard work (and grows too), that users get more and more from their devices, that many more people have a MOD Dwarf in their hands, and that the future be bright for all.

With my warmest regards, QM.

11 Likes
#35

We invited everyone who filled out the survey and said that would like to participate in these company videos. Did you not fill out?

#36

Had no idea to be honest lol. The forum wasn’t in the best place during the restructure, so I am not sure how many people filled surveys or not

#37

I don’t remember. Furthermore, this survey may have been created at a time where the Dwarf was still a dream for me. I just remember offering my help for the reverb community video.

Anyway, my sentence wasn’t a real complaint but was meant to be funny.

Thank you for that.

I understand what you mean as you seem to be a Dostoïevsky kind of poster. :slight_smile:
Beware of perfectionism. I myself suffer from that and it ruins my life.

It’s sad for us and maybe even more for the MOD company, considering your support. But your life will always be more important than a forum dedicated to music gear. I just hope you’re leaving us without a bitter feeling and with good memories.

8 Likes
#38

What do you think about using the private sharing pedalboard with sounds sample as tool for make shared music sample for video advertising?
Just create a pedalboard topic within a short riff or melody that other user could enrich whit their personal approach so also the pedalboard making could be clear as creative tool (and we could learn each other).
It could be easier for whom that have not video make skills or good camera to rec the performance. As advantage it could be done directly by user here in the forum ( maybe implementing a little bit the tags of the category "pedalboard ") and having the screenshot pedalboard make more clear how customizable are those devices. Afterall one minute of music in internet advertising it’s a lot of time considering the average attention time of nowadays. The role of mod team could be reduced in some final editing just to emphasize the fact that all the pedalboard are directly in the device and no computer is needed in the performance and you can try them with a click.
A video of player could be placed in the corner, but if someone don’t like video ( as me) just place the username and profile photo.
In this way the community can start several “projects” at the same time without use the mod team time until we are happy of the result.

5 Likes
#39

this seems to me like a great idea… if we can all use just a MOD device for sound processing, and clearly show the function(s) of the pedalboards we build, it would demonstrate a lot of the MOD flexibility, gathered around a unifying idea.

the key would be to keep a good focus on what the MOD device brings to the table, and how it accomplishes that.

3 Likes
#40

If I had the money for some decent zoom video camera or something, I’d see myself documenting some steps through the journey I have made as a singing guitarist in both heavy and singer/songwriter genre.

I think it would be more of a webpage with brief video and audio fragments and text and images in between rather than a fully edited pro production.

but budget is a little tight right now :confused:
Maybe next year

2 Likes
#41

I didn’t say that. I was just pointing out what I think is missing. But I might again misinterpreted what audience this video is for.

send me the link. I’ll do something with it.

5 Likes
#42

Awesome @spunktsch . That’s the way to do it!

I will send a PM with the links

It was not meant to be a product video and it was meant to focus on the people and music, rather than the product.

#43

Hi Gianfranco, here is a new video tutorial showing how to build a simple “double pedalboard” to go straight to a PA with an electric instrument and an acoustic instrument.
I often use this kind of configuration and it works pretty well for me. Hope it could help…

16 Likes
#44

That very good @zwabo . Very fun video :slight_smile:

Quick question. Do you keep the Dwarf display protector foil on purpose?

4 Likes
#45

I’ve left mine on. Bad habit. I usually leave things like that on until they get damaged, and then remove them.

5 Likes
#46

No…nothing on purpose…, I just forgot to pull it off.

1 Like
#47

the video is now on the website.

8 Likes
#48

Very nice showcase of the software, hardware and sound!
Short and crispy made!
Just one sidenote, after adding the cabsim it sounds like you set the output volume to high for the next 2 samples or so. Or is that only on my side?

#49

it is likely, there is a slight distortion…sorry.

#50

I really like the “MOD Dwarf Stop Motion Unboxing” video on Youtube (now also on the mod.audio website):

It’s fun to watch (usually I’m not much of a fan of unboxing videos, but this one’s cool) and also the shared pedalboard is really great, showing a lot of the capabilities of the device.

Great promotion overall.

However, I’m afraid that someone who doesn’t know about MOD yet will likely not fully understand that really ALL the sound comes from the Dwarf in this case and what kind of power is demonstrated here.
I myself was quite impressed immediately and amazed at the the clever combination of changing MIDI backing track and at the same time changing the guitar tone just by switching snapshots.
And in fact I doodled along with this for several hours a few days ago, jumping back and forth in the snapshots… :wink:

I think something like a “behind the scenes” or “making of” to that Video could really give a great insight to “the unknowing” just what great capabilities lie in the Dwarf / the MOD Ecosystem.

Or somethins similar, showing step by step how such an awesome Pedalboard is created.

“Look what I can do with this - I sit down in front of my PC, create a Pedalboard with an effect chain, hammer in some MIDI riffs and settings, save it all and now I can unplug the PC and play a whole song just playing my guitar and using the two footswitches on the Dwarf”.

Of course this particular Pedalboard + Song sure took longer to create than any casual viewers would be willing to follow in real-time, but some combination of playing a song (or part of it) as an intro, then showing how it’s created and in the end Playing a complete song (maybe without computer attached?) could send a great message.

Unfortunately I’m neither skilled nor creative enough to make something like this, bu I could imagine this could really draw some attention from interested people.

10 Likes
#51

This video is amazing :heart_eyes: and it made me look into the MOD community. I can’t believe it doesn’t get more views on YouTube.

It checks all the boxes: short, creative, fun, very informative and achieved a great sound starting from scratch.

4 Likes