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jpst

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About jpst

  • Birthday 11/30/1999

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    piano teacher
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    Jazz, classical
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    UK
  1. Mental note: get plastic wings for my KC550, to make it sound amazing...
  2. Just spotted this current thread-in-the-thread! I also have both the SSv3 and a pair of TT08s for AP jazz gigs. I'll have to go try this out tomorrow... John
  3. I've done a number of gigs with the SS3 now (does a cracking job with organ & mini-vent), and the latest was a jazz trio & vocals charity dinner/auction gig (straight piano), where I needed minimal kit, that had to be moved rooms (& down stairs) between sets, from drinks/canapes room to dining hall (in an historic English castle, no less!) (sorry, no pics). I have a cheap lightweight table-type stand that goes really low, and I discovered that the SS3 makes a good seat (with a thin cushion on top, that fits in my keyboard bag). So that cut down on one item to bring (travelling in the drummer's car). SS3 & cushion, PX-5S & stand, music stand, one L&R twin jack cable, power for both, sustain pedal; nice and easy to move, and a good sound! Only slight down side is that the band wanted me louder (despite front speaker pointing straight at them), but audience perspective (according to singer) wanted me quieter, because there were obviously no placement options. It can be a weird creature, this SS3 - it often seems louder/more present further away, in the audience, than it does on stage. It might be just that the band members are so used to "in yer face" directional speakers for the keys. I personally quite like it, as a real piano sends sounds "all around" in many directions; general, warm & present rather than "loud", and so does this.
  4. The quality of the acoustic piano sound is not the same as the TT08s, but I wasn't expecting it to be, considering the price of the TT08s. For a solo piano gig, or small piano-only jazz gig, I'd be tempted to stick to the RCFs, as the stereo field isn't so much of an issue. But everything else, the SS3 sounds great. Apologies - I really need to sign off now & go & practise
  5. Initial quick impressions: WOW! It's one thing reading about it, quite another actually experiencing it! Very impressed already. I do a good few fusion/funk/classic disco mix gigs, and use my warm stereo string & pad combination settings a lot, and dialling in chorus rhodes or chorus piano with it (proper cheese!) - this thing will absolutely monster those sounds. Layer piano/ep great, but pads were a bit staid, but I've figured this SS3 out now: the pads were dead-centre (00), and once I set them all to half-pan (max is +64 ® or -64(L), so I set them to 32, either direction), I got the pads & strings swirling round the room! I set the damper pedal to toggle/switch instead of momentary, so the pads stayed on, and wandered round the room - lush depth pretty much everywhere! Acoustic piano sounds are a bit poor, but, again, fairly mono/centre. I doubled the piano patch (2 of them on) and set the second to full pan (64), and improved things a lot (engaging the lower speaker). Guess I could just set the one patch to half-pan, instead. I can see I'm going to need to spend some time reconfiguring my px5s settings to optimise this speaker (mostly the pan settings), & have one lot of settings for this, on thumb drive, and another lot for my RCFs. No time to try my Viscount drawbar organ module & mini-vent - I need to pack it away now & go do urgent practice for my orchestra trip, but I'm guessing it'll do an awesome leslie impersonation! I'll experiment more when I get back home and have more time, in August...
  6. I'm in Gloucestershire. Got a busy few days of urgent practice, then going away for a week to Germany (orchestra trip), so some packing to do too, but I have loads of time free in August. From the short try-out I've just had, I'll need to reconfigure a lot of my patches to a more panned, spatial format, to take full advantage of this SS3, which I won't have time to do before I go away. But when I'm back, in August, by all means!
  7. Just a quick comment for Aspen ,as requested, to say it arrived from Germany this morning at 7:30am, so it was 4 days. It cost 773 euros, which is £540.56 ($841.63) at current exchange rates. Of course, my bank decided to then charge me 2.75% non-sterling transaction fee plus £1.50 non-sterling purchase fee, totalling £16.36 ($25.48) on top - don't you just love banks! Also, for those in the UK who haven't ordered from Thomann before, Thomann stuff doesn't come with a UK-spec power lead/plug, only a European one, so you'll need to pick up one of those separately if you don't have a spare one (not a problem for me - I have masses of them knocking around, like most musos). I haven't tried it yet - will report later...
  8. One of my plans also. It's one of the perks of teaching, to have a month away from the treadmill, to spend time at the piano woodshedding (last August was spent gutting & refurbishing a clavinet as well) - boy do I need practice time, to get some chops back again! Also to play some classical. And figure out the rest of the stuff my px5s does, that I haven't needed yet. Haven't figured out half the stuff on my microkorg yet either, or tried the vocoder. I have a jam session Friday, just before I go away, so if the SS3 has arrived, I'll try it out then...
  9. Unfortunately, the SS3 is going to arrive just in time for my really quiet period! This last month, I've had 6 gigs, the final 7th one is tonight, had a show (in the pit, our own monitors), and a school concert, where I teach. I'm going away next Saturday for a week, and I then have precisely zero gigs in August, at the moment! Also, it's school summer holidays (or vacation in US), so I can't even talk about it at work! I pre-ordered it back in May - if only it had arrived last month... Oh well...
  10. Good news for us in Europe - looks like the first batch of SSv3s have hit Thomann! Just had email saying mine has been despatched - can't wait...
  11. Good news for me in UK - SS3 just listed on Thomann site for pre-order, so I got my pre-order in!
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