This is the DAY!!!!
(no, I'm not reviving "Jekyll & Hyde" ... and yes, I know it's your favorite showtune Donny - no need to post a link to the song)

I'm finally ready to retire the PA900 to my (antique-rich) studio, to quietly rest alongside the Rhodes, Yamaha 9000PRO and (gulp) trusty Korg i5s. (and all the guitar stuff, of course)

My crazy summer is over, and I'm on fire to restructure, revise, refine and revitalize everything about my performance ... and my life. I'm back on a healthy eating plan, sleeping more regular hours, riding my bike, and tweaking, recording and modernizing my gear during the day. I'm so excited to head into this coming holiday season with the new setup - EVERYTHING, and I mean everything, sounds so much better on this 4x, compared to the 900. I'm recording new vocal backings to use with guitar based songs, special medleys and updating my repertoire to sound as competitive as I can.

This is the moment! (I mean it, Donny ... they all know the song)
(stay tuned...)

OK, you can all have a good laugh at the Hasselhoffer ...
https://youtu.be/LvMToLhUieQ

You are so right about the 4X! Possibilities are unlimited. Wish I had more energy and inspiration to do more with it, but I'm happy with what I'm doing.
I know you will get the most from it!

I bet you do a good show, Dave. Someone who keeps refining and has drive to improve, with today's technology, I am sure can provide a really good sound. And have fun!

I didn't care for Mr. Broadway but Broadway is not at all what I like. But he did a good job, I was surprised at his range and he was not pitchy. Don't care for his voice but he's not a singer. Kudos to him, he certainly is no quitter, he keeps at it after tv let him go!

[video:youtube]https://youtu.be/WkCGdeanCK4[/video]


Dave......no one does it like Robert Cucciolli ..
this is my favorite version of this amazing song!,


Good luck with the Pa4x......and your new approach.....see you soon.

I knew you couldn't resist!

I knew YOU couldn't either gives me chills every time I watch him sing it WOW!!! is all I have to say!!

Dave redoing from the bottom up is exciting. New ideas and sounds – a chance to make a new you and change you’re your music. It gets me excited to think of your creativity and where it will take you.
Setting up a new keyboard is exciting; but creating a situation which allows your blood to flow. aaaaaaaaH I love it!

John C.

PS, You can see by my post that I am thinking of doing the same thing. There is more than setting up a keyboard and playing out; as good as it is. But leaving your comfort zone to create is right up there with loving our business of preforming. It's like have a new kid or a new wife --oooops, should not have said that.

Been thinking along those same lines, at least for repitore. Trouble is I just can't see to come up with any really exciting new songs for a OMB that won't sound corny on an Arranger. I listen to a lot of music here and its guitar dominated . Most of the stuff they do I really don't recognize or like.
Anyone learning anything that seems fresh but again not corny on an Arranger?
BTW I'm also leaning away from SMFs and doiong more with Styles, especially since I've finally master using the One Touch settings on the BK9. Big differnence for preforming and worth the considerable programming time.

Hi John,
Go for it.

( new keyboard, not new wife) haha

If you're gigging it's what the audience likes always... If you wanna keep making $$$

I play for the audience in public, and for myself at home.

I enjoy the best of both worlds.

Exactly Jerry, they'll make you or break you always, .....

Three strikes ... I'm OUT!

Dave,
"ONE is the Loneliest Number"....
Never give up, there's someone for everyone......
just sayin.........




That said personally I have been taking my time methodically setting up the KORG Pa4x which by the way sounds really amazing! The workflow is smooth and logical compared to all my previous KORG arrangers & it lets the user if you dig in edit and tweak till your hearts content. The TC VH is simply astonishing compared to anything Yamaha ever produced..& for a singer player its total bliss. I was in a boring playing lull until I got the Pa4x, it really inspires and excites the senses every time you turn it on.


good luck


PS,...would love to hear your version of this song also Dave one of these days I know you'll kill it as usual!! :-)

If you're talking about "This is the Moment" ... I've tried on several occasions, and I can't make peace with it. Without doing the octave jump at the end, if looses all it's punch, and I can't find a key that lets me handle both ends of the range, with the power it requires. I admire those who can do it ... except David Hasselhoff.

To try something different, I returned to guitar on gigs a few weeks ago, after regular arranger playing for the past several years. While refreshing with lots of positive comments from the restaurant staff, I really miss not having all those great registrations to play around with. To me, solo guitar gets boring after an entire evening of the same instrument sound. Although the backing tracks sound great----wav files created on a Tyros 5 and played from a tablet. Works extremely well for solo jobs.

What? !!! not my hero & mentor!! Never say no!!...
I know this song is STUCK in your head Now lol...
Uncle Dave can do ANYTHING!!

Single guitar playing is GREAT. It separates the real players from the "pickers and grinners".

You have to re-voice chords, sometimes, to make it possible to play bass lines,

4 hours a night is a challenge, but completely doable. In fact, around here, I have little competition, except for the "three chorders" and Jimmy Buffet dudes. Several clubs hire me because I don't sit there with a music stand, notebook and a capo.

Lots of work, but worth it!


Russ

This Is The Moment...

https://youtu.be/a5gAGCuL5_4

Track was arranged by me on the Yamaha Motif XF. I won a big TV with this song. Now, all I need to do is to sell my PSR-S970 and invest into my next musical moment!!

loved it!! everyone puts their special stylings to it and you my friend did it justice for real!

Thanx for sharing.

Nice job J - I've seen this before, and it still holds up. I have one teeny suggestion for you ... the last key change is exciting, and your voice really carries it, but the track stays constant. I'd recommend pumping the energy of that last chorus so you can really feel the extra push. If I was in the band backing you up, that's how I'd react when you really slam the ending home! Bravo, my friend. Well done, you.

Thank you!!

The track has meat at the end but it was a competition and a DJ was controlling the volume. I always push the the end of big songs to create a big "moment." The track was pumped up from the beginning by my Ozone software. I never know if I can trust the person running sound and I am competing against karaoke tracks that are pumped up from the studio. The main volume could have been pushed at the end to give me more support. I remember the "moment" well and I know I wanted to hear more.

I wonder how the track would come out if I produced it on the Korg Pa4X?!?

I think Dave is talk in about building towards the ending musically not with volume

Nope - Johnathan nailed it musically. I just wanted the band to "catch up" with his energy at the end. It was a great performance.

My summer gig is running sound at a regional theatre... Gretna Theatre in Mt. Gretna, PA. Next season will be my 5th and the theater's 90th. I always add a little extra volume and meat in a dynamic song near the end. It's the performance of the actor, the pit orchestra and the sound person all working together to create that special musical moment! And when it happens, it can be magic!

OK... if I sell off my...
Korg M1R EX
Roland D-550
Korg O1/W fd
Korg Wavestation EX
Korg Triton Studio 61
Roland VP-770
Yamaha PSR-S970

Then I may have enough to buy the Korg Pa4X. eBay... here I come!!!

Good move Jon Pa4x is amazing!