GREAT videos! Loved especially #6 (Girl from Ipanema/Half a minute), but Route 66 was very enjoyable as well. Would love to hear more from the same trio.
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Registered: 08/21/09
Posts: 359
Loc: Tampa, Florida, USA
Kudos to Ketron for the nice videos.
As far as I can remember, is the first time that an arranger manufacturing company do a demo of one of their products with a live trio. Most of the demo videos are base solo perfomances.
I just don't know how anyone can sit on top of the drums like that... There's no way in hell a real drummer would have sat still for being swamped out like that three did (well, the girl was OK in the mix), he'd have just started laying into the drums harder!
There's a real art to playing 'within' a mix rather than on top of it. I hear very few that succeed. You really have to play by braille to a certain extent. Most of the time, if you can hear yourself WELL, you are just plain to damn loud!
These guys should have done 'Take 1', listened to the mix, and made adjustments. It's a shame, because the strength of Ketron's is those drums. Swamping them and relegating them to the background negates their value.
'Take two, guys'....
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Registered: 09/19/08
Posts: 1264
Loc: United Kingdom
i really enjoyed all the demos. Robert is an excellent demonsrator and so creative !! Needl;ess to say Audya sounds sounds wonderful.I fully understand why folks are into the audya.
Registered: 06/25/99
Posts: 16735
Loc: Benton, LA, USA
The pounding piano is too loud on the first song. If fact, I would have had the style do it and then played the lead parts myself. Good sound though. as Diki said, needs better balance. At least they are posting good live stuff. "Don't Know Why" was better balanced, but drums still a little too far back for my taste. If you don't watch it and just listen, you can't tell there is an arranger involved except for the stupid string thing at the very end. Out of four endings, seems like he could have just hit the simple one and stopped! Anyway, that's the sort of mistake that you can do live, and it was very real to life! DonM