Can’t we all just get along?

The internet is a rough — ROUGH — jungle.

Not the kind with vines and parrots.

The kind with comment sections.

Spend five minutes on Instagram, Threads, or Reddit inside the “audio engineering” world and you’ll see it. For every person asking a sincere question, there’s someone waiting in the bushes with a superiority complex and a keyboard.

And yeah — I’ve done my share of trolling.

I’m the guy rating studio setups in cigarettes.

A little ball-busting? Fair game. Humor is part of culture. If nobody’s bleeding, we’re good.

But there’s a line.

There’s a difference between joking with someone…

and dragging them through the mud because you think you’re the final authority on compression ratios.

It winds me up sometimes.

Because I remember being the guy who couldn’t get sound out of his speakers.

I remember not knowing what a compressor even did.

And I’ll be the first to admit — I still don’t know it all.

I listen to someone like Dan Worrall and immediately realize how much further there is to go. (Humbling is an understatement.)

Here’s the thing.

Yes — the internet is flooded with “What DAW should I use?”

Yes — the answer is often in the manual.

Yes — “Why do my mixes sound terrible?” gets asked 47 times a day.

I get tired of it too.

But being hateful about it serves absolutely no one.

For me, I love helping. I love teaching.

I’m usually pretty closed-mouthed in most areas of life.

But audio? I can go on forever.

Because this stuff matters to me.

The bedroom producers.

The first-time mixers.

The kid trying to find the drivers for his interface at 1:00 a.m.

We were all that person.

And here’s the part that might sound cheesy — but it’s true:

We’re all mixing the same song.

Different sessions.

Different rooms.

Different skill levels.

Same song.

So chew on that for a minute.

The next time someone asks for help… help.

And if you’re the type who likes to stir dissension, try something different.

Scroll past. Or better yet — drop a tip. Share something useful. Be the person you needed when you started.

This community doesn’t get better because the loudest voice wins.

It gets better when the experienced reach back.

Cheers,

Cory