Originally posted by Diki:
Live music seems to sell quite well at LIVE venues! 
If you WANT to sound like a CD on a gig, go ahead and knock yourselves out... but if you want to sound like a live band (like all the artists from CD's do when they go out and play live
) don't choke the life out of the drummer. Yes perhaps it does, but any decent "live" band is going to have balance.
Hearing the Audya demos just exposes the poor mix...fix the mix, and perhaps it might sound a little more like a "good" recording of a band...as of now, it sounds like a recorded band with a drummer for a soundman.
Duos using an arranger, including your own, do not sound like a "live" band...nobody's being fooled, Diki...get a live drummer and bass player...then you'll sound "live"...not until.
Otherwise you sound just like every other arranger based single or duo.
Ian