Dear Bill,

Let me first thank you for your site. I've been visiting GW on and off for about a year and half now.
I appreciate your enormous effort to operate and maintain Gearwire.com. And by-and-large the Gearwire team seems committed, enthusiastic and intelligent. The trade show videos along are a triumph.

Can you tell me if GW solely for hobbyists and/or marginal musicians or pro and semi-pro.
If GW is for hobbyists and the like, no need to read further. You doing a good job.

If, however, your gold is appeal to the latter, and please excuse my candor, I cannot fathom why Gearwire doesn't feature any evolved musicians. Isn't there someone who can, for example, demo a new synth, keyboard or VSTi who can actually play with some command of various styles so we can accurately access what's there? Watching your Korg K61P demo moved me to finally write you. I don't mean to be unkind but what were you thinking? This may very well be a swell keyboard but no viewer would never know this.

Please allow me to further vent. Why use that mangled bit of music that incessantly plays at the beginning of each and every GW video? For me, this non-musical, abrasive nonsense lies at the heart of my frustration with GW's pedestrian format.

Maybe the you could provide your listeners and viewers a more musical approach, something loftier to strive for, more than filters opening and closing and drum machines.

What I like to see are serious and even (dare I say) sophisticated discussions on production and DAW's in your Crosstalk segments. How 'bout having a DAW series, for example, that feature serious, professional Cubase producer one episode, a Sonar the next, etc.. Maybe there's an opportunity to not only show “host” features, tips and tricks and 3rd party vst/vsti's, but actually demonstrate how to arrange and mix in various styles, not only Electronica, trance and dance and the like.

There aren't many services like yours on the net. I frequent Harmony Central, Sonic State, SOS and a few others. I prefer your site's layout and easy access to videos. Although, if I may suggest, it would be a bit more convenient if you could differentiate between text and video links with an icon or the like.

I'll be watching with great interest to see if GW offers something a little satisfying for the semi-pro and professional.

Thanks for the opportunity to vent.