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Jon E Salley
MiloJohnson@...
M400 #886




> Once again, I find myself comforted.  That has been a long-standing policy
> of my own as well. I've always hated going to live shows and finding the
> arrangements weak and empty, missing a lot of the little touches and
> flourishes that made the songs' studio versions, and have therefore always
> been insistent to the point of really pissing people off about being able
to
> perform original material note-for-note in a live situation.  I find it
also
> helps you be more creative, because if you want to put something in a
song,
> you have to figure out HOW instead of using the studio as a crutch.
>
> And regarding Alesis MicroVerb, I'm almost in exact accord there, too.
I'd
> kill to find another Alesis MidiVerb II.  The big reverbs in patch 19 and
in
> patch 21 have always been the warmest, fullest reverbs I've ever heard,
even
> "nicer" sounding than the big Lexicons, etc. that people rave about.
>
> Jon E Salley
> MiloJohnson@...
> M400 #886
>
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> >
> > Genesis appears to have had a strict policy for studio recordings
> > where they'd always arrange the music "as if live", so nobody is
> > playing a combination of instruments they couldn't play in a live
> > performance.  I don't know how intentional this was, but it sure seems
> > consistant.  If not obsessive.
> >
> > Arranging a song "as if live" has a number of interesting effects:
> >   Live performances can sound pretty much exactly like the studio
> >   recordings.
> >
> >   There's a certain sense of musical honesty.
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