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HORNS, REVERB AND MIXING |
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Posted by: ♔Chello - 05-08-2026, 04:37 PM - Forum: CHELLO`S ARTICLES
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HORNS, REVERB AND MIXING
One thing is certain, and strangely never mentioned by sound engineers:
When it comes to adding reverb to a mix, a horn system reveals potential problems as standard, even exclusive monitors are not capable of.
A horn system will always reproduce more reverb than is otherwise audible, which guarantees that when it sounds right in the horns, there will never be too much reverb with other speakers.
Some studio monitors, such as the Kali, have an exceptionally powerful horn loading of the tweeter, but even these cannot compare to full-scale horns.
Kali is ranked as one of the best, but the Yamaha HS5 is surprisingly good, perhaps largely due to the large waveguide around the tweeter, which provides unusually good reverb and perspective.
Too much reverb is one of the worst things there is, and is capable of ruining even the best mix.
My horns will always be the final judge of my mix.
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| Comparison of Style Companies pt1 |
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Posted by: ⚖whitecolin1 - 05-08-2026, 02:29 PM - Forum: GENERAL DISCUSSION
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there are a multitude of companies selling Styles/RGT and expansions, here is my assessment of quality and value for money
This is only my opinion, but having first hand experience i have a relatively good idea on whats good nd whats not
Bee music From £30-80 very good quality Recommend Classical magic 4/5
Strawberry music £80 100 rgt good quality but has no intro/endings of the original song also a little date 3/5
Styles 24 £10 each comes with style/Rgt Midi And midi score 4/5
doo £8 not a lover rehashes of generic styles 2/5
Andre Shurma £20- 100 Huge collection good quality price a little high on some products 4/5
Key-Experts £8 poor quality 2/5
Keyboard Akademy £60 German company nice quality poor value for money 2.5/5
Easy sounds £60 expansions descent but more synth oriantated 3/5
Keyboard World- £100 tested their latest registrations powerpack not worth the money 2.5/5
Anthony pianico Yamaha demonstrator £45 was dissapointed use wav voices poorly mixed 2/5
Genos world Store £ 60+ some good stuff on there mainly Expansions
Mister Music £70 Tested best of B3, Best ive Heard worth everypenny 5/5
Epianos £200-£400 Sells as add on descent quality far too high priced 2/5
TTT theatre music and sound alikes £50-400 quality sampled overpriced soundalike £50 very good
Soundpacks- Lee wilberham £60-80 Epic Strings very good others plagerised 3/5
Sharrenburg £12-60 a really mixed bag some really good others not so 3/5
Obviously there are any others,I will try to do a comparison of songs on like companies lets see if others have recommendations
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| All things retro |
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Posted by: ⚖musicalmemoriesuk - 05-08-2026, 02:18 PM - Forum: MUSICAL MEMORIES`S ARTICLES
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A slight sidestep from my normal posts.
Besides arranger keyboards, I’ve always had an interest in computers which came long before my interest in arranger keyboards.
As technology advances people jump on to the bandwagon to get the next latest bit of hardware or kit.
But zooming out to the wider picture there is a growing amount of people reverting to older generations of technology, look at the huge demand for older gaming systems, and physical media collections. Just look at videos on social media of people who have rooms full of older gaming systems and games.
How is this applicable to arranger keyboards, it’s similar in a way.
Whilst the newer models of arranger keyboards are excellent, there are a lot of people holding on to older models or even getting older models because they become more affordable.
As you probably read posts from Chello of how good the Tyros 4 is or was.
Maybe the arranger keyboard companies are missing something yes the market is in decline, but with the increasing costs of components etc this will also push up the price of any newer models which will make them beyond the budgets of more people. So then previous models become more in demand because they are more affordable.
So is retro or older technology really that bad?
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MUSIC IS A CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC |
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Posted by: ♔Chello - 05-07-2026, 04:24 PM - Forum: CHELLO`S ARTICLES
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MUSIC IS A CONTROVERSIAL TOPIC
What is good or bad music, and why ?
This is a solid basis for starting a controversy.
Although music is mathematically explainable and mathematically defensible, (it should be) required of the debater a certain musicality.
Here the controversy begins to take shape, because most people only have a limited musicality, while those who have sufficient musicality understand and accept the mathematics of music intuitively.
Music can also have a mathematics that is on the borderline of the inharmonic; so-called A-tonal music, which stretches the harmonic limits to the extreme.
Popular music, on the other hand, is almost exclusively simple and easy to understand, even for the less musical, with simple, easy-to-understand harmonies.
Many people do not like jazz, most often because they do not understand its often complex harmonies, but this can also simply be due to taste and preference.
Classical music is something of the same - it places certain demands on the listener's musicality, but can be fully defended mathematically, and forms the basis for all other genres.
To understand harmonies and their mathematical laws, it is best to study classical music.
A highly educated musician has a solid basis for being able to say what is good or bad music, and is able to mathematically explain why.
It is perhaps also correct to say that bad music is based on harmonies that are repeated over and over again without variations, something that anyone can in principle compose without theoretical knowledge or particular musicality.
Most popular music is like that in my opinion; repetitive harmonies without variations, and digital tools allow anyone to become a composer without any knowledge of music.
Moreover, even the world's greatest composers have their own harmonic signature and tendency to choose their own harmonic variations, such as Beethoven and Mozart and a host of others.
But in any case, music is and remains a controversial victim of people's different tastes, and it is the majority that decides - and they are not musicians and often completely unmusical.
Being criticized for one's musical performance by ordinary people should be given little or no value, while the criticism of a valued musician should be taken very seriously.
Despite taste and liking.
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