UPDATED Full Review - SIMON PHILLIPS-HIROMI-ANTHONY JACKSON

[Kurtis]

well someone needs to record this and put it up on dime if it's allowed. i love this tune also Juan! this video recording looks really kick ass. the camera is in the musicians faces the entire time. makes for great entertainment. me wants this very badly.

[gretsch-o-rama]

http://www.drummerworld.com/Videos/stev ... msolo.html

[Yussuf]

http://www.drummerworld.com/Videos/stevesmithhiromidrumsolo.html

I liked the visuals at about 0:08-0:10.

[Juan Expósito]

Full details, Juan! I want to know your thoughts on his tuning being up close and behind the kit.

Tonight I will have ready the FULL REVIEW & PICS.

Meanwhile Clint, you won´t find nothing about Simon´s tuning process in my review, because when I came back to the stage with my BD beaters, bass drums/snares and toms were already set. However, later he took MUCH time until he got the right sound of the BDs for the PA and for his monitors.

All I can say is that from my point (close to the set in some different points of the stage) and without mics sounds:

- The snare drums sounded SUPERB, pure Simon.
- The Bass drums sounded SUPERB, pure Simon.
- But the toms, eachone of the six ones, well...I was a little disappointed, compared to the sound we hear on his recordings.

At first listening you could say the toms didn´t sound well, but as Simon says here, YOU REALLY GOT TO KNOW WHAT A MICROPHONE LIKES.

Go to 1:20...

[Juan Expósito]

well someone needs to record this and put it up on dime if it's allowed. i love this tune also Juan! this video recording looks really kick ass. the camera is in the musicians faces the entire time. makes for great entertainment. me wants this very badly.

Until that happens, here we have the entire tune in another stage...

[Juan Expósito]

I´ve just purchased SIMON´S TUTORIAL about recording drums (25 minutes) and some others of this series, like the TRACKING A BAND...
(the little clip I posted above is from SP´s drums recording video)

I T ´ S G R E A T !!!

Alan Parsons´ART & SCIENCE OF SOUND RECORDING
(You can see all the available videos on the right orf the page / 4.99 $ each video file.

http://www.artandscienceofsound.com/

[Juan Expósito]

Excuses for the delay…but I put some time on it.
At the beginning I was only going to write a few words in this same topic, but I started writing and I could´t stop.
So I´ve posted the story on my website. At the end of the page, you can see the link for the pics.

This is the complete REVIEW & PICTURES about that day with Simon and the trio.
I hope you read it and like it.

REPORT AND PICTURES HERE:
http://www.juanexpo.com/simon_english.htm

For Facebookers:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1121269983

For new HODers, you can read a similar report about the day with DAVE WECKL (Mike Stern Band) here:
http://www.juanexpo.com/fototeca.htm

[Rodge]

Beautiful Juan, nice work, muchas gracias for sharing, right on hermano.

[Juan Expósito]

For Spanish HODers and those of you with TV cable:

This HOROMI TRIO show in Jazz San Javier is going to be on TV tonight.
Spanish Television (TV2)
Announced at 1:25 am (Madrid time)

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I´ve seen HH mics placed further than the drum video cameraman.

Cheers.

[deseipel]

you would think he's playing an arena rock show with the size of his kit, jeesh. I like Simon, I just feel he could say a ton more with less drums.

I really liked this group when I first heard about them, and I even saw them live and it was good. I wish there were more risks taken with the music. Feels too safe sometimes. And at times, it sounds as if it could be used as incidental music in a horrible Disney made for TV movie. I want risk and more 'grease' to it! At times, Its like the Four Freshmen doing James Brown. I'll stop now.