i don't owe anyone any particular type of answer. i get paid well upwards of $100/hour for consulting/teaching work, and so the answers i give here for free will necessarily be the answers i choose to give.

i don't owe anyone a nice bedside manner. my job in my paid teaching work is to cut through the nonsense, help people correct their misunderstandings, and better position themselves to pursue their music/audio goals. i feel the same sense of obligation here.

some of my students have gone on to produce Top 40 hits, sign major label artist deals, tour as opening acts on arena tours for superstars, engineer for celebrities, etc. the proof, to a certain extent, is in the pudding.

nitpicking semantics (e.g. "it's technically diffusion, at a single frequency, and you should say it that way because it's validating") is a distraction from what matters: making better records.