Pretty easy thing to check, Nick...

Press Record on your sequencer while you play normally at home, then do it at a gig... Then look at the files in a sequencer. Pretty easy to see if you are playing harder or not...

Now , maybe you are NOT playing any harder at the gig, but I'm fairly sure that MOST players (including myself if the audience is pretty!) do, so a general comment about playing live stronger than at home was a reasonable generalization.

Maybe that's what's happening here lately... someone makes a general comment, and then the one person that disagrees with it thinks it is a specific comment. All anybody is saying is that, IN MOST CASES (in their opinion) such and such is the case, or this or that.

Have we all got to start prefacing our sentences with some kind of disclaimer, or is everyone adult enough in here to start realizing that when someone gives their opinion, they are just giving their OPINION, not laying down the law, not saying you MUST do it this way, just stating an opinion. That's what forums are for.... to listen to other people's experiences and opinions, and to offer yours, if you want.

That's all... Unless a person is specifically addressed, all ANY of us are doing is making general comments and stating our opinions. Anything wrong with that?