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Nord has added a little variety in their sample in the last couple years with the Felt piano, a new upright, and a couple more Rhodes. The Rhodes were interesting the other okay. I've had my Nord Stage about two years now and I find in general most the sound are boring and of limited use especially for performance. The earlier Nord sounds are kind of dull sounding not a lot of clarity. The later sounds have a little more definition but they all are way too fat. Fat is good if doing solo, duo, trio work, but if playing in a band or recording fat is bad unless doing solo, duo, or trio. I find I have to have low end rolled off as a standard setting. I listen the Nord Artist sound package and some good sounds so I get into what are they doing and there are layers of synth and effects to make the Rhodes and other sounds good. To me Nord needs to do a whole revamp of their sounds library with focus on sounds for live use, so sound more open AP sound, most sound like very close mic'd. Definitely way better Wurlitzer sounds. So a balance of their sounds gear to solo... playing and sounds for live.

Yes, Coltrane especially his later years are not something to jump into you need to start early and get your ears to grow to understand his later years. One of my favorite Coltrane albums is Ballads. He was in his later years, but decided to do a couple albums that were simpler. The Ballads album is a education in phrasing melodies.

I listen to it a little and not something I'm in a rush to load. I could hear using it for some film composing type work, but not something I hear for a gig unless as part of layering sounds. It's like the softness is an effect, now that would be cool to have as an effect that give that type of soft sound but is adjustment as to amount and how quick it affects the sound.

There are some portable monitors thin so they can be put in a backpack, but the ones I've seen are not that big. The biggest I saw listed when I searched was 17".

Anthony Marinelli was the synth programmer for Quincy Jones and worked on the Michael Jackson and other artists. There is a whole series of video by Anthony on others that worked on the Thriller sessions I found interesting. The link is below. Stories In the Room link

D&B are one of my all time favorite bands. So lucky to of worked with Bobby Whitlock, Jim Price, James Gordon (keyboards in the later days, and hang some with Kenny Gradney in the studio. Then getting to be around Bonnie post D&B in the studio. For my friends and I D&B was a major part of our music education listening to them.

Same reason I'm SO SO thankful that my father convinced my mother to move from the state I was born in to California when I was a little kid. I rarely tell people where I was born because of all the stereotypes about the state and the people in it. Which my mom had twelve siblings who had big families so I've seen or heard about life back there and I'd say most the stereotypes are true. So I understand about stereotypes even being basically a Californian I hear lots of stereotypes from when I was moving around the country a lot.

For me being I played guitar and bass for 60+ years before deciding to come to piano probably a bit different take. One wish I had started to play much earlier in life. Actually I did in college but my $%@$^%$^ *&$%#% piano teacher who all the students felt she had a dildo named Chopin. She really screwed me up and I didn't want anything to do with piano after that. Today I'd still probably still make guitar/bass my main instrument but like to play piano for educational value. How would change how I've been trying to learn piano and think I would approach learning it more like I did guitar and bass. More along the lines that Victor Wooten talks about. If I was to do a course I'd probably do Suzuki Method. I'm also very aware this is what I think would work for me and maybe not for the average person.

In my college days I worked a morning gig in a grocery store as a box boy that what they called it then, it gave me the rest of the day and night for school, bands, and audio gigs. I remember one day I was in the checkstand and over the muszac system I heard the sound of 101 Strings play Evil Ways by Santana. I started laughing and people were looking at me like I was crazy, but hearing all those violin sawing away playing that riff was hilarious. I also weirded out people whenever I had to go out and collect the shopping carts or leave the checkstand I would sing funky bass lines as I worked. Had to make the job interesting.

You go through Columbia House catalog and don't buy the biggest selling album in the history of Jazz, the album that was the gateway for many to get into Jazz the Columbia records album Kind of Blue by Miles Davis??? Working in a record store whenever someone said I want to get into Jazz that's the album we sold. Good parents start their kids young listening to KOB. Oh for those coming in wanting to get into Classical we'd ask piano or orchestra. If they said piano sold the Horowitz Moonlight Sonata, if orchestra Copland Rodeo since they will recognize some many of the melodies from being used in commercials and TV. Sometime if we knew the person was a rock fan we'd sell them Wendy Carlos Switch On Bach or Heavy Rock fan Holtz The Planets and tell them to crank up volume for Mars.

Your close to Barry Harris world of 6 on the 5th of the tritone sub. So that would be the BH Min6Dim scale from the 5th of the tritone. So that would be C# Melodic Minor with the added b6 in non-BH terms. The old Jazz cats I've hung with would just call what you did a Pitch Collection and not worry about a theoretical name.

You can have Justin too.

Since I'm trying to learn Ableton Live I went and bought a Akai MPK Mini to get some pads and control knobs.

Hate anything that involves the word Metal or Shredding, can't stand it so would never play it. Not a fan of what people call Prog don't hate it like Metal just it never did anything for me. I sold a ton of Genesis, Tull and Pink Floyd when working in the record store so I heard it a lot, never did anything for me. Well exception Pink Floyd Darkside of Moon and The Wall the recording quality was amazing so I listen to it for the audio. Country as a guitar player I enjoyed playing Country and all the cool pedal steel and trick licks, but if not making money playing it I don't listen to Country. Then the real Popish Pop like Abba and so on boring. So light your flamethrowers and have at it.

The Wire, Bosch, Orphan Black, Goliath, Killing Eve, Power, The Expanse, NYPD Blue and similar shows. Then when I got my refurbished MBP it came with a few months of Apple TV free so I'm getting into checking out shows there. So far I like For All Mankind a weird show on NASA but like the cable show Man In The HighTower they flip history around. So For All Mankind the Russians land on the moon first and constant hassles with Russia. Then they flip US history some in the background. Then someone else mentioned Slow Horses that is real good show and a few SciFi and dystopian stories Solo, Invasion, Monarch. The shows all have high production values in cinematography sound, costumes, sets, and sound, but my gripe is many of the show are 10 episodes or less. But watching on my MBP with it's great screen and using AirPods Pro the spatial sound is a great experience. I might pay for Apple TV after the free time is over. So in general I like dark TV shows not into comedy and Sitcoms.

Woke up and had to get my Groove on.

Two for my favorite legend David T. Walker and Janes Gadson that's what rhythm section playing is all about.

Don't forget the cost of all that rigging, transporting, and accident insurance. A lot of risk flying that much weight above people's heads. When I worked the Yes tour a stadium date was added to the tour that wasn't planning for, but manager see a chance to make money they just say Yes. We'll we realize the PA we were carrying for the tour was too small to do a stadium with. We were using a Clair Brother system so Roy Clair checks on what other tours are they doing the we could borrow their system for the day. Ends up Elton John's tour was close and one of his systems was available so Elton said fine and let us borrow his system. We go to do the stadium gig and the PA is first thing we setup because that determines the width of the stage area. So fine we get most the speakers cabinets on the wings of the stage, and we start hearing cracking sounds. The wings of the stage were breaking down, the extra weight of Elton's PA hadn't been figured in, power yes, weight no. So we were all scrambling to pull down the speaker cabs. Then get on the phone to a local lumber years and for $$$ got an truckload of 4x4's delivered ASAP. Then re enforced the wings of the stage and start putting the PA up again. Have to say the regular Yes PA had more low end, but Elton's PA sounded so damn good overall. So there is a lot to PA work besides putting up the system, ringing it out, and mixing the show.

Bass is basically non-directional that why sub woofers can be placed just about anywhere.

Those are hanging pretty low for line array so I'm guessing the area to be covered was small for outdoors. Hanging that low the with subs below the people in front should hear a full sound. If me I might of grabbed a couple more monitors and turned them facing out toward the audience and send FOH mix to them for some front fill being the spread of the PA is a bit wide.

Bottom section is probably just subwoofer. Still want front fills for people us front so they don't hear mainly low end.

Problem with line arrays is they are typically high above the stage sometime even a bit forward of the stage. and then subwoofer down on floor level, but that means the people sitting up front the highend is blowing past their heads and they get blasted with the low end from the sub's. So doing line array need to have front fills about stage level to get the highend to the people sitting close to the stage. But line array and even speakers on poles is about getting the FOH over the peoples heads to fill the room and to increase the sight lines so more tickets can be sold. All about getthg the PA off the floor and peoples bodies are blocking the sound distribution.

I need to try and find my Back to Mono button I got at a Phil Spector seminar back in the early 70's. Hearing Phil talk about his big hits how each part of the song was going to make it a hit for different reason than the other parts of the song. I think these buttons were made by one of the Beatles when they were working on the Let It Be album.

Yes, i can't believe the number of replies from people saying their listening to non-music instead of music. I don't have a fancy music space the bedroom in my little apartment is my music room and my bed is in the dining area. I found having a space dedicated to music really helps, I enter my music space and it all about music. I think I get into it because towards the end of my working days and having long commutes to work and somehow got into listening to talk radio. that eventually crept into my home life talking to people about the radio crap, and dealing with caring for a dying mother. Finally one day I realized that listening to all the talk radio CRAP made me such an a55h0le and I stopped cold turkey. I started listening to music in my car again, talking music with people and my life became good again, i was happy again. So music is important even just listening for me it saved my life.

Original electronic chorus was the Roland Jazz Chorus amp it bounced the sound between the two speakers that were side by side in the cabinet might as well been mono. Then came Roland Jazz chorus pedal and the BOSS CE pedal (Roland and Boss are the same company) and both were mono they were the pedal that really made the Chorus sound popular. A number of name guitarists were known for using the Roland Jazz Chorus amp, but what I didn't know until today is Roland Jazz Chorus amp was meant for keyboard players. I don't remember keyboardist using the Roland Jazz Chorus amps. So the chorus sound became popular from being used in mono pedals. Stereo pedals came later. UPDATE: I just went back to YT to cruse about a bit and stumbled on this and like how they talked about using the chorus pedal to fatten the sound more that spread it.