NOTHING BUT YAMAHA SREV1 FOR SCHEINER AND STEELY DAN

—Engineer/Producer Talks Shop on Reverb and DM2000 at Yamaha AES Booth—

LOS ANGELES, CA (October 5, 2002)—If you haven't heard by now, Elliot Scheiner has a Yamaha DM2000 digital production console in the comfort of his very own studio. He'll be talking about his use of the console and the projects he's currently working on during the AES Show at the Yamaha booth (#1401) on Saturday, October 5th between 1:00 – 3:00 PM and again on Sunday, October 6th between 1:00 – 3:00 PM.

The five-time GRAMMY winner, producer and engineer has also been a long-time advocate of the Yamaha SREV1 digital audio reverb, which he used exclusively on the new Steely Dan album, set to be released in 2003. "We were looking to get the plate sound we had on earlier Steely records for this CD," he states. "We brought the SREV1 into the studio, and after Walter and Donald listened to it with me, we continued to use it for the entire project. It's outstanding…we didn't need to use any other reverb at all, that was it.

"I'd use the SREV just for the 140 sound," Scheiner continues. "If I closed my eyes and hadn't known it was a digital reverb, I would have thought it was an old 140. "I'm amazed at the sound of this reverb; it has the best plate sound I've heard in 25 years."

As for the reverb's pre-delays; on one of the new Steely tracks, Walter [Becker] and Scheiner were attempting to get an analog sound. "I thought I'd put in a pre-delay using an analog tape machine," he explains, "but when it was all said and done, the pre-delays within the SREV1 itself sounded better than the analog delays. The quality was phenomenal."

Scheiner is currently putting the finishing touches on the new Steely Dan CD, and is busy working on a host of new projects using his DM2000-equipped studio, Sear Sound. First up is an REM 5.1 project, followed by the Allman Brothers' Live from the Fillmore, followed by a new album for Olivia Newton-John, and a Derek & the Dominos project. "I'm more amazed with the DM2000 now than I was six months ago," he says. "The quality of the mixes coming out is greater than I ever imagined—both in stereo and 5.1. I recently did a Christmas record with Steve Lukather and a bunch of his friends for Bop City Records, a new label that Al Schmidt, Ed Cherney and I started. 'Luk said it was one of the best sounding records he's ever made."

For more information on the SREV1 and DM2000, visit Yamaha at the 113th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, Los Angeles Convention Center, Booth 1401; write Yamaha Corporation of America, Commercial Audio Systems Division, P.O. Box 6600, Buena Park, CA 90622; telephone (714) 522-9011; e-mail infostation@yamaha.com; or visit www.yamaha.com/proaudio.