Over the course of my Reef Vlogs I've come to see two benefits to showing my failures. In reefing people can learn a lot from watching someone else's mistakes, simply because they won't repeat them. The other benefit is indicating to the viewers, "Hey look we all fuck up, it's fine." Because we all fuck up, and it is fine. You shouldn't feel bad about mistakes, and I shouldn't pretend that I don't make them.
As a YouTuber you are strongly disincentivized to ever hint at failure. You get so much shit for the smallest mistake. One guy strongly insisted that I should delete my iM1 video and redo it entirely because I misspoke and said "Yamaha" instead of "Korg" in the intro. I pinned that comment in effigy so you can read it and my reply. At the time I was fairly disheartened by his callousness. Now I view his comment as self-defeating. I don't think it benefits anyone by me pretending I'm somehow flawless.
All of this is a long-winded wind up to say, "Oops." I took an ambitious road as I tackled Model 15, and I failed.
Video Description:
Moog's Model 15 is a massive beast. In this Let's Play I focus on a couple of my favorite features! If you've enjoyed this series please consider supporting it by becoming a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/discchord If you'd prefer to help on a monthly basis, instead of per video, there is a monthly Patreon campaign: https://www.patreon.com/discchord_com (Patrons of both campaigns get the same benefits, including Ad Free viewing on the site!)
Reader Comments 9
You're most welcome! Thank you for requesting it, or I probably would have continued to put it off.
I wonder if there is a way to make the patch cables transparent or switch the view on/off so that it’s easier to see what’s underneath. It gets crowded pretty fast.
@Be The Noise, you can make the cables transparent by double tapping the screen with two fingers.
there is... double tap with 2 fingers reduces tranparency of cables!
I’ve done a few videos, you were even... um... kind(?) enough to post them... it’s a major pain in the ass to even do it half assed. You actually take time and effort!
Moral of the story... make “shitty videos” a part of your brand proposition then you can say it’s intentional or ironic or something. 😜