Modartt user forum - Elton's piano sound, live in Tokyo...

Re: Elton's piano sound, live in Tokyo...

null@example.com (skip) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 02:52:13 +0000

Agreed - it is powerful.

For the second time, I think this piano album is excellent:
http://itunes.apple.com/au/album/the-lo...d315013454
("The Look Of Love - A Beautiful Piano Tribute to Burt Bacharach")

Hopefully iTunes is almost as universal as YouTube. The fidelity is certainly better in iTunes, anyway. Previewing is possible without making a purchase.

Here's the kind of piano sound I would PREFER Elton use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPeVbEg1DHE
("It's Too Late", Carole King, live)

Greg.

Re: Elton's piano sound, live in Tokyo...

null@example.com (Cellomangler) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:55:11 +0000

Well.. in my defense, I didn't say it sounded good, I said "powerful".
I think it would make an interesting experiment -maybe in a subset of the forum- to use YouTube to search out what we each think is the best piano sound and post those links. See if there is any consensus. I'd use YouTube as the source because we all have access to it and we'd be hearing the exact same thing. I'd really like to see how we all perceive our idealized "recorded" piano sound, and even though YouTube's audio is far from pristine, it would offer a huge palette to choose from.

Re: Elton's piano sound, live in Tokyo...

null@example.com (Glenn NK) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:01:55 +0000

I agree that it doesn't sound very good.

What intrigued me is how he plays with his forearms at about a 45 degree angle to horizontal - almost like he's standing up. Strange.

Re: Elton's piano sound, live in Tokyo...

null@example.com (skip) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:57:39 +0000

It sounds like it has the Roland MKS20 sound blended in, and I don't particularly like that sound. (I haven't got super-natural hearing powers - I recently learnt from the EltonJohn.Com web site that they do typically blend in the MKS20 with the acoustic)

It doesn't sound honky-tonk to me, per-se - just a bit electronic and artifcial.

EDIT: Here's the very long thread about Elton's piano sound:

http://forums.prospero.com/n/pfx/forum....p;tid=4623

Greg.
p.s The MKS20 is a rather old piano module that uses Roland's "Structural Adaptive Synthesis", which I understand is a form of modelling.

Re: Elton's piano sound, live in Tokyo...

null@example.com (Glenn NK) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:49:30 +0000

It sounds honky-tonk to me. They fiddled with the unison slider too much.

Glenn

Elton's piano sound, live in Tokyo...

null@example.com (Cellomangler) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 23:41:37 +0000

Just seemed worthy to share if ya hadn't caught this one. Talk about one powerful sounding grand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Ax0wPJrz0