Yeah... good player. Sounds like he could dial back the vel sensitivity a bit (probably those light keys!) when playing with a track, though.

Same thing we talked about on another thread... it helps to have the drums and bass rise a bit once we start spanking it! Having them plough on as if nothing happened is a bit TOO mechanical, for me.

Has anyone tried to use sidechain expansion on backing tracks? With a REALLY long release, it might help to get audio tracks to pop a bit more in response to frisky live playing... just a few db, not much.

But all in all, I guess if he had just got the rhythm section up in the first place (it sounds very much like him playing ON a track rather than IN the track) it wouldn't have been so bad.. (not that it was bad, just could have been better).

It's a fault we almost ALL fall into, playing ON the track, as if we were listening to a monitor mix, rather than IN the track, as if we were listening to a playback. It takes courage to play so quietly we can hardly hear ourselves, which is often where we need to be when comping! I don't think I can remember the last member demo that didn't sound like the solo and even the comp (if one is ever played!) could easily go down a few db to sit in the mix better....

Only recording ourselves constantly, and then being this critical can fix this... you just have to dial down the patch until it sounds right on playback, and to hell with how it makes you feel while you are actually playing