johnnyonehand wrote:More gear bashing over a piece of equipment no one has ever used.
Typical.
More business bashing over a company that refuses to respect their consumers.Most complaints aren't about the Beat Thang at all. The majority of these posts are about peoples' negative experiences dealing with these guys.
Personally, I lost interest in the product as soon as I heard the name. Things only got worse as I read their advertisements.
Ideally, this product should be sold by professionals to be used by professionals. When a salesman interjects rap slang into his pitch it sounds unprofessional, crude, and it's incredibly patronizing. By marketing the product like that they're basically saying "Our market is too ignorant to understand the tech aspects of our product, so we're going to connect with them on a cultural level"
The way these guys operate is downright insulting. How's a grown-ass man supposed to compose professional quality music on a machine that has a 'freak' button on it? I'm not trying to buy a shiny toy from a bunch of business men that try to act like rappers.
While I'm on the subject of rappers: I make rap music, and I love hip-hop to death; but I'm not trying to purchase a machine specifically designed to make rap music. These guys are severely limiting their range of marketability by trying to focus on a specific genre. Everything I've read about the Beat Thang has led me to believe that they designed it with the eyes of a hip-hop producer, not an engineer. Creative input from the intended consumer is important, no doubt; but if you rely too much on that perspective you'll inevitably make a product that is too specialized to be useful to a wide range of musicians.
The Beat Kangz mean well, but I think they went into this half-cocked. Anyway, these are all the thoughts I've had about this thing since I heard about it a year or two ago. Now I'm going to go make beats until these adderalls wear off. Thanks for letting me rant.
