| Comparing apples and oranges to find the best grapes
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At the risk of sounding like Andy Rooney, what's up with the people who demo equipment. When they're comparing things, why don't they try to minimize the variables?
F'rinstance, I was watching a review comparing two basses. The first bass, the guy runs through a couple of metal riffs. He picks up the second bass, hooked to a different brand of amplifier and plays funk. Then talks about how the tone on the first bass is better. What's up with that?
Then there's the demo of a Squier fretless. Different guy, same problem. He was talking how different it sounded when he changed the balance from the neck pickup to the bridge. But he played different tunes in both settings (straight rock on the neck pickup, Weather Report on the bridge), making it really difficult to hear what he was talking about.
On some level I understand that the guys are picking tunes to showcase something. Even so, to me it would be more useful to play a riff on one setting, change it and then play the same riff again so that viewers could actually hear the difference.
Do you remember the old days when you'd go to the electronics store and they'd have a big switching box so that you could hear several brands of speakers driven by the same receiver so that you judge which was best? And you'd actually play the same music each time you listened.
Am I being cranky or just expecting too much? | 
