Dan Steinberg

I don't think I saw any of these yet, apologies if mentioned already: Ben Folds Five "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces" Earlier mention of Kenny Kirkland's solo in the live version of "Bring On The Night" made me think of this one, IMO they have a similar vibe Utopia "Libertine" Great synth solo from Roger Powell The Cars "Bye Bye Love" I was always curious what synth was used for this and how much of the latter part of the solo was fancy playing vs. digital delay echoes Sheryl Crow "My Favorite Mistake" Great electric piano solo with lots of vibe Lenny Kravitz "My Precious Love" Poignant piano solo in this sparse tune, not sure if played by Lenny or one of the few session players used on this debut album. Michael Penn "Long Way Down" Great Chamberlin solo by Patrick Warren, who is a badass because he does pitch bending on said Chamberlin by slowing down a sharp spinning metal wheel with his bare thumb. Scritti Politti "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin" "Slippery" sounding synth in the solo reminds me a little of the synth sound used in the Stop making Sense live album, in songs like "Life During Wartime" and "Girlfriend is Better" Absolute Great use of a "clangorous" tone in this solo, not sure if was done on a DX7, which could do those types of patches. Van Halen "I'll Wait" The synth solo in the middle of this tune is pretty cool and it has 2 bonus aspects: 1-When I saw Van Halen live a few years ago and they played it, David Lee Roth started playing "air-synth" to the 16th note pattern, which was kind of cool 2-A very long time ago, on this forum I think, we got to learn a special new kind of "keyboard tab" for this tune that involved some sort of Chicken-Foot icon as part of the music notation. Some years later, Van Halen's 2nd singer formed a band called "Chickenfoot", proving that they keyboard corner's influence runs strong in the head world of rock n' roll.

Well, better late than never I say. Hi there everyone! My name is Dan Steinberg, I am a 29 year old recording engineer turned audio product manager. Ive been reading this forum (and some of the other EQ ones) for ages but dont post very often. I worked in L.A. for a while, fresh out of college, freelancing at some different recording studios and my own small home facility, working on record albums, audio for video, assisting film composers, music editing, etc. That was a fun period and I got to learn a lot of great analog and digital recording techniques from a lot of great engineers. Somehow I even managed to scrape together a living, oh the good old salad days! About three years ago, I moved down to San Diego and started working as a test engineer/product manager/tech support guy for the (now out of business) company Timeline Vista. We were the ones that made the Lynx synchronizers that sync up the big old 2 tape machines. We also made the MMR-8 and MX-2424 recorders for Tascam (at which place I got to meet some fine folks like Jeff the Wandering Weasel). Finally, for the past few months I have been working as a product manager up in Woodinville, Washington at Mackie Designs. Its been a really fun and challenging gig and everyone here is a great bunch of folks. Since I got here in January and had lived in Southern California for many years, the rain took a little getting used to.. I enjoy writing music and recording, and playing different instruments including bass, guitar, and piano. I probably need to practice my technique more on all of them, but that's not important! Well, thats my story, fascinating Im sure!