Thanks for stopping by my web site Donny.

In the song "Don't Be Cruel" I am using the Tyros vocalizer. I don't own a T2. The EQ settings were slight Low EQ, less than detent Mid EQ, and an extra amount of High EQ. I can't give you the exact settings because I change them around and that song was recorded about 3 years ago. The basic rule of thumb for setting the T1 vocalizer is sparse amounts of Low EQ, around half amount of the Mid EQ or thereabouts, and more than half and upwards of three quarters (or more) amount of High EQ. At least that's what the manual is basically advocating anyway. Your mileage may vary of course depending on volume level settings of the Mic control knobs on the Tyros, the Microphone you use, the process used to record the song i.e. quality Mic and other type cables vs. cheap cables, sound entering the Mic other than your voice which needs to be kept at a minimum otherwise the vocalizer will be more prone to distortion, etc., etc.

A lot of the above precautions and settings would be a lot less important in the scheme of things if Yamaha had given the Tyros/2 a more robust VH to begin with. As it stands now, all we can do is hope and pray that Yamaha will bring that objective to fruition in the T3. The objective being a top notch Vocalizer that stands head and shoulders above the competition. And not impossible to achieve in my opinion either, but with Yamaha's lackadaisical attitude thus far in the VH competition wars, they will indeed have a lot of catching up to do, and with little time to accomplish it. In theory it could be as little as four months before Yamaha shows up at Winter NAMM 2008 with the new T2 successor. More likely though is that we won't see a T3 until Summer NAMM 2008 (in July) or in the worse case scenario not until Musikmesse in February of 2009. Although if Yamaha waits until 2009 they risk losing massive amounts of the arranger keyboard market share because of the technology that is changing so quickly in the area of keyboard feature implementation. In other words, the other companies may leave them in the dust to play major catch-up.

If Yamaha does indeed wait until Musikmesse 2009 for their T2 successor it better have Firewire 800 and/or USB "3.0" instead of USB 2.0. And it MUST have MORE than 128 note polyphony. No if's, and's, or but's about it.

Best,
Mike