NO REVERB -Tenor Sax comparisons: 54k Selmer SBA, 57k Mark VI, 107k Mark VI, CE Winds Pro & Alpha

BEST VIEWED IN 480P, (BETTER SOUND AND VIDEO QUALITY) A customer came and test played some tenor saxophones, all being played on a Jody Jazz DV mouthpiece with Legere Signature reed. The clips were all recorded consecutively with a Zoom Q3 recorder. The customer was not biased to CE Winds, so he did not try to play any one better than the other. He misses some notes on some of the clips but you can still get an overall understanding of sound and resonance.

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[thenewyorkjazz]

Sounds great. Digging the version without reverb...easier to get a sense of the differences between horns. All sound really good though!

[CEwindsSaxes]

@thenewyorkjazz yeah i agree. The customer originally requested the reverb so we did it.. but some sotw'ers recommended taking it off, and man, it really helps to hear better..

[sugasugaki]

0:20 SBA

0:34 Pro DSV

0:49 57k Mark VI

1:03 Pro DV

1:17 Alpha VC

1:32 107k Mark VI

1:47 Pro DS

2:00 Alpha GL

It's really hard to distinguish the DV/DSV from their Selmer counterparts. Think the SBA is better than the DSV by a hair (a bit silkier), the Pro DV better than the 57k Mark VI (slightly rounder sound)

[83Zel944]

I would bet that if there was no identifying subtitles and only the tone. 99% of us would misidentify the tones.

[unacarafea]

I guess the only one that can tell a difference between the horns is the one playing it because they all sound the basically the same. They sound like everything on YouTube. Compressed.

[ToddCWilliams]

This would be more useful if you included something other than Selmers and CE's. Like a Mexi-Conn or a typical student horn or a cheap ebay horn.

[mastersgta1]

Tone-wise all of these horns are pretty close. But the VI's are just a tad faster. Sometimes tho, "a tad" means quite a lot. (say if you play some skunk funk for ex)

[SekiToni]

Your line of horn can hold their own with the mark VI.Well in my opinion