'Arrival' (4.78Mb)   RealAudio
'Arrival' (8.66Mb)   MP3

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Recording Venue: Home
Recording Equipment: Korg Trinity workstation, Behringer Ultrafex II enhancer, Philips CDR760 CD writer.

Composed entirely with the Korg Trinity, this demo is the solo work of Suffolk based Andrew Deeks. I recently recorded a band who used this workstation and I can testify that the sounds are exceptionally good. The only problem I had on that occasion was getting the sounds to sit well in the mix because they're all so big! I'm pleased to say that, on this demo, Andrew seems to have got the measure of the beast and his instrumental compositions are melodic and thoughtful.

Having said that, most of the mixes tend to favour the lead instrument a bit heavily, especially the second and third compositions where the lead synth work is also sounding peaky in the mid frequencies. This makes it pretty tiring on the ears -- especially at louder listening levels. I don't know whether it's possible to EQ this sound separately on the Trinity, but some of the edge could certainly be taken off using an internal filter. If this isn't possible then some post production EQ cut around 2kHz would do the trick without unduly affecting the overall sound of the mix. Incidentally, I also noticed that this is a problem on high resonant sweeps where certain frequency areas really make your eardrums rattle!

Given the method of recording -- direct to Philips CD-R via a Behringer Ultrafex from the Korg Trinity's main outputs -- the CD sounds pretty good on both of my sets of speakers. In terms of arrangement there's a bit too much indulgent soloing going on. Andrew acknowledges that he's fallen in love with the lead guitar sound on the Trinity, even though he's a guitarist himself. The lead guitar's echoed tones are reminiscent of the more progressive rock soloing style and Andrew claims to have fooled quite a lot of people with it. In my view, it sounds at its best on the fourth composition 'Arrival' where even the chunky attack of the plectrum on the string is part of the sample. This is a track that also features the most wonderful phased string sound I've heard for some time -- it took me right back to the early eighties.


 

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