I saw the Tony Verderosa clinic last night, and since I haven't slept yet, and it's 7:30 in the morning, here's a short rundown.
Tony Verderosa/V-FX/The V-Man - whatever you want to call him, he's a nice guy, and a great clinician who manages to talk TO the crowd, not AT the crowd, as I've seen many other drummers do. Tony uses these clinics to explain his concept of electronic drums as a composition tool and demostrates how he records and composes songs on the DTXtreme.
Talking of which, I head the DTXtreme over a PA last night, no outboard effects, and as Tony said, apart from 3 sounds he had loaded in himself he was using untweeked preset sounds all night. Man, it's not half bad, actually! The drum sounds were powerful, had nice depth and clarity, a far cry from the extremely (no pun intended) dull and lifeless sounds I had heard over headphones a few hours earlier in NYC. Not a bad machine, and I caught myself thinking about maybe getting the brain.
I'll be back later with a more detailed report, I've got to catch some sleep first.
Stu
Tony Verderosa/V-FX/The V-Man - whatever you want to call him, he's a nice guy, and a great clinician who manages to talk TO the crowd, not AT the crowd, as I've seen many other drummers do. Tony uses these clinics to explain his concept of electronic drums as a composition tool and demostrates how he records and composes songs on the DTXtreme.
Talking of which, I head the DTXtreme over a PA last night, no outboard effects, and as Tony said, apart from 3 sounds he had loaded in himself he was using untweeked preset sounds all night. Man, it's not half bad, actually! The drum sounds were powerful, had nice depth and clarity, a far cry from the extremely (no pun intended) dull and lifeless sounds I had heard over headphones a few hours earlier in NYC. Not a bad machine, and I caught myself thinking about maybe getting the brain.
I'll be back later with a more detailed report, I've got to catch some sleep first.
Stu
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