From jason_stanfield@mac.com Sat Aug 28 10:16:12 2010
Subject:Re: TX5 - Was Epoch

I'm working on ways I can provide more and more demos, but time is tight right now. I take issue with a few points, though:

1) I won't play it through a Leslie; no two sound alike.

2) I won't do room recording. Again, no two sound alike -- what size room? How much baffling? What kind of mic(s)? And will your answers reflect others'?

3) No fleet-fingered wanking, Lawrence-Welk-style chirping, or soap opera music. The purpose of a demo is to hear the gear, not be impressed with the player's chops ... or wonder if next week Joany's going to find out if Doctor Morrow's ex-wife's ex-husband is the brother of his second cousin's grandfather who's heir to the Coleman fortune.

Personally, I think the best comparison recording is direct, simulating the headphone experience by providing solely the instrument's tone. If you want to hear how it sounds in a room, use a good sound card, and run an audio out into a speaker in the room you want to hear it in, or use an adapter and send the signal through a Leslie.

I'd be inviting all kinds of trouble using various speakers and amps, microphones, rooms, and such coloring the sound, then playing so fast or so densely that the organ's sound is masked.

Jason Stanfield