From hammond.b3@verizon.net Fri Mar 19 18:09:54 2010
Subject:Re: Great Video Interview with David Rosenthal

It was almost like, " I got access to all this gear, I got technicians to wrangle it for me, I got to spend hours and hours sampling and arranging parts and boards so I'm going to use the most involved rig I can possibly buy".
Or-I'm going to do this because I can.
I have to admit I simply didn't understand all of the digital junk and digital boards and non-musical hardware he was using. I'm still not sure why you need digital clocks to run this stuff. I'll be damned if I can hear a difference even when I get several tracks running on three or four different synths in the studio.
Unless he's firing off a lot of samples and sequences I don't why you'd need to take a chance with one piece going down and taking the enitre rig with it. And I know they have an identical back-up rig so that in itself is scary.
Take notice of the story he tells with his entire rig going off-line and he's down on all fours unplugging and re-plugging audio connections.
Sheesh.
Another person to check out is Guy Allison who plays with the Doobies. He was nice enough to answer some questions I had re: his live rig so he seems like a very nice cat.
When I checked out his studio rig I was lost on the amount of "stuff" he's using.
I can understand using a Receptor to handle a bunch of plug-ins and I guess you need to make sure all of that runs at the same time with no midi back-ups but it sure seems excessive.
When I hear the completed tracks I scratch my head. I can do all of that w/out all of the hardware.

From: David Jacques
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 7:16 PM
To: CloneWheel@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CWSG] Great Video Interview with David Rosenthal


I agree... Seems that you could do all this with an XK3, Leslie, and
Motif... seems like overkill to me.

On Mar 19, 2010, at 4:35 PM, hammond.b3@verizon.net wrote: