There’s a website called Sonic State which covers music-tech news, product releases, stuff like that. They have discussion forums also. I’ve never paid much attention to it but sometimes I watch their videos from trade shows. They tend to do strange things like run press releases for completely insignificant events, particularly things having to do with Roland. On the other hand, they’ve never printed the press releases that Audio Damage has sent to them. We have no idea why; typically news-oriented sites are eager for material to post. Eventually Chris stopped sending them stuff altogether since it seemed to be a waste of effort.
Hence it both amused and irked me to find the following text in two articles about Audio Damage products which they have posted recently:
“Audio Damage, Inc. have been in touch to let us know that they have updated their Replicant plug-in to version 1.0.2 on Windows and 1.0.4 on OSX. They tell us that this update fixes (mostly) an issue some people were having with small clicks in the audio path, especially when working on sustained material.”
“Audio Damage tell us that they have updated Dubstation, their plug-in modelled on the ‘bucket-brigade’ style of vintage delay units, to version 1.2 on both Windows and OSX.”
What followed each of these quotations was a lightly reworded verson of our actual press releases. Now, we haven’t told them anything about either of these releases, so it seems pretty damn cheeky for them to say that we’ve “been in touch” with them. Hence you can safely conclude that anything they say that we’ve said to them is, in fact, something that we said elsewhere and they’re claiming to be part of a personal conversation.
If we were big enough to have a legal department, I’ll have our lawyers go after ’em for libel. I resent the fact that now that we’re big enough to get their attention they protray themselves as having direct conversations with us.
