Recent content by les24preludes

I would say that the aim is to create "the real thing" in the studio with acoustic instruments. That's difficult enough and requires engineers that often are very good musicians themselves, like Jan-Erik Kongshaug for ECM. The way he mic'd up a drumkit was miraculous, a work of art. Live music...

Do you have the knowledge to change parts? Seems not. It does require someone familiar with working on tube amps who can easily read schematics and check everything. Not for have-a-go tinkering. All parts have to be specified correctly then soldered correctly and checked for values and voltages...

Yes indeed. I never really liked the Bechstein I grew up on, but of course it was me playing it. For a while a classical concert pianist came and practised on it and it sounded really good for the first time. I was stunned at the difference - sounded like a different piano. With me it sounded...

As somebody who grew up on a Bluthner you must know that pianos sound different. I grew up on a Bechstein boudoir grand and that's a different sound again. Walter Gieseking made all his recordings on Bechsteins including his famous Debussy ones. The sound is woody and a bit tubby. A Steinway is...

I'm sick to the back teeth of reading all these "there is still hope" choruses from incompetent journalists. Politicians don't care. Get that though your thick skulls..... "Pakistan faces a critical juncture where its decisions on carbon emissions, energy crisis, and climate change will shape...

Keith Jarrett - It's Easy To Remember

Randy Newman - Rider In The Rain

I want to buy a couple of transformers from Poland, around 2kg each. Polish post doesn't insure for UK. Can anyone suggest a courier? Also I'm wondering whether to send each one separately, value £120 each. My past experience is that packets under around £150 tend to not incur border taxes -...

https://www.aol.co.uk/news/pakistan-temperatures-cross-52-c-150137073.html 52° in Pakistan already. Wake up all you politicians - poor people don't have air conditioning and swimming pools.......

I suspect he was just "very Australian"...... Probably nobody here talks Strine

Steely Dan - Black Cow

Don't be sceptical about sounds in software - they quickly become addictive. And as been said by many of us, some of the best piano and electric piano sounds of all are in software, not on the instrument. Take this from experienced pianists. She will have to go to a showroom and try some proper...

You need a good weighted action. Search on that on Keyboard Forums. Let the keyboard players there guide you. The action has to be weighted, and not any kind of semi or pseudo weighted. Genuine weighted keys. The keyboard will, of course be heavier and the casing more solid. Look at the overall...

I was tempted to say that - I was a happy owner of both back in the day. But time has moved on - so many good sounds in software now.

You should look on the Keyboard Forums. https://www.keyboardforums.com/ I have an old full-size Roland FP but it's way out of date. Good action, though. Bear in mind that your partner may get interested in other sounds with an electronic instrument, so you might check out other sounds like...