While on the second half of my Florida vacation, I visited a Sam Ash in Clearwater. First of all, this is a great music shop and its huge. In ma/RI the only big store is GC since the demise of mars music.It was a treat to visit, with walls and walls of gear.
Back to my main reason for this post.I saw a PA800 begging me to try it again.Wow 2 pa800's in one week.
Most of you reading this post read my review last week. I gave it poor marks.some agreed and some didn't.
I thought I'd give it another whirl.
Let me start by saying I missed some things the first time. For whatever reason the one I tried last week had a B&W screen. This one was infact color.
A great salesman named Roberto was nice enough to hook up a nice mic on a stand for me.
Folks after standing by my tyros 2 like a little brother. I must admit the Harmony function by TC helicon kicked the crap out of the T2. It was amazing!
I did look for the software version and it was using the old one.
I disconnected it from the store monitors to hear the on board speakers more closely. They were actually pretty good sounding nice and boomy with no distortion at max volume. But still not attractive looking the silver color clashes with the ugly blue board.
The buTtons were not as bad as I initally reported. They were much smaller than I like but at least they were hard plastic unlike the S900. The heavy duty clear hard plastic light up T2 are still king to me.
I Gave the styles another try. My complaint is two different genres share the same button with sort of a A/B select button.
This is also how the voices are set up as well.
The intros are mapped out pretty intuitively.
1st one is a long quite busy intro.they echo some very popular tunes from past years.
2nd (I like this one ) It allows you to play the chords in whatever progression you want while it adds all the fluff.
3rd. A quick intro similar to that on the. Tyros 2 intro 1
The only styles I really liked that could compete with the T2 were most of the heavier rock ones .
I liked the gospel ones and would love to add these to compliment the ones on the T2.
The pop and ballad styles were very very weak.
A few soul, funk., doo op and a couple others were actually very good. I am not by any means saying they were better than the T2 but I'd like to compliment. And build on my current styles.
Onto the voices. I retried the organ but this time I edited it and used the drawbars and like donny said it made a huge difference. The Organ was nice and full sounding. A thumbs up.
Onto the strings
My salesman Roberto.is a really great strings player on the keyboard so I asked him to demo that voice so I could stand back and listen. He played a few selections and wowed me
Just as good as the T2.
The scat voices were very good. Some of the brass was better than I reported in my previous review.
But that sax is so horrible as well as the acoustic guitar.
Overall the T2 voices are better overall.
I didn't get to fool with all of the mp3 features, the smf capabilities. Using faders and such.but you Korg players seem to swear by it.
So here is my overall opinion after giving it a second try.
The harmony is amazing!!! I'd trade the T2 harmonizer for it in a second There are a few styles iD love to add to my T2 arsenal
If love to take the scat voices and add them to my T2.
And take the mp3 and smf features as well
With all that said Id still keep my T2 anyday over the Pa800.
But afte my second audition of it. I can respect it a little more.
Again I have no intentions to upset anyone on the forums
Just my honest opinion
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