My friend from the forum Jim P. called me this afternoon and asked if I had a chance to read any of these posts in this "hot" discussion. I hadn't. So, a few minutes ago I downloaded both songs.
I have both the SD5 and Tyros2 in my store. I listened to the first song done on the SD5. I could tell the style used was from the rock catagory called "westride". It sounded just awful when played on my $1200 pair of Roland Studio Monitors by my computer. I went over to the SD5 and called up this style and first thing I have to say is that this particular style has probably the worst sounding drum track the person recording could have used. The style is almost completely a bass drum on downbeats and a march type snare cadence which is played almost to sound like brushes rather than sticks. It's probably a style that I wouldn't use in my store to show off the quality of the SD5's drum sounds and beats. However, played live it still sounded way better than the example recorded. I wish he would choose something like a funk , blues, latin or big band style to compare. Some might still choose one brand over the other but the comparison would be more closely similar I would suspect.


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George Kaye
Kaye's Music Scene
Reseda, California
818-881-5566
www.kayesmusicscene.com