"No amount of EQ can make up for sound that isn’t there."
As an experienced production guy, I say you're absolutely right. If the sound being captured is sh*t, no matter what's done to it via EQ, compression, verb/delay, it'll never be right.
In the studio, for instance, a clean, great sounding raw track will sound great with a minimum of effort during mixdown.
In the studio, I've pulled my hair out trying to massage badly recorded vocals, guitars, basses etc. into shape. Most of the time the solution is to record them again - correctly.
That would take something our "representatives" lack - balls.
I watched some of Cheat-O's "testimony" yesterday. Then, as is my habit, I watched some of it again with the sound off to concentrate on mannerisms and body language.
My conclusion, as it is with so many of these drone-like government parasites, is that Cheat-O is a classic bloodless, dull instrument of an evil regime. Think Hannah Arendt. . . yesterday's farce was "a report on the banality of evil."
Cheat-O would make a reliable death camp designer, or administrator.
In a virtuous society, a “Satan Club” in any grammar or high school would be completely destroyed, along with its backers and funders, within minutes of rearing its head.
"While America watched Sportsball on their 65” TV’s and grilled in their backyards while streaming the latest hip hop and/or Taylor Swift music, “Our Democracy” became a thoroughly corrupt Banana Republic."
Bwahahaha! Truth! I'll add . . . were watching porn, shoveling garbage food down their throats, quaffing antidepressants and agonizing over the design of their next tattoo.
And people have the balls to ask, "How did this happen?"
"I’d bet a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts he writes in his own name."
And I'll bet 13 Big Macs, 12 Super Sized Fries, six whole, roasted chickens, 17 boxes of assorted Dunkin' Donuts pastries, a case of Mountain Dew, 30 gallons of ice cream, 32 Family Size buckets of KFC, a barbequed side of beef and 300 large pizzas, which is what I figure that useless Land Whale sucks down - before dinner.