![]() 4-8k would be the range to play with clarity and sparkle on a piano. The second thing to try is to give a little nudge upwards in some higher frequencies. Start out with 200Hz as a center frequency and go 1/4 octave on either side to scoop out some of that mud. The first is to try ducking the "mud in the mids". Using your ears can be difficult to do if what you want to hear is camouflaged.Īlso, if you've already identified "muddy" as a trait there are two things to consider. ![]() Eventually, the analyzer will not be needed so much and the term "use your ears" will eventually make a lot more sense. Sometimes it's necessary to "see" what you're hearing before the ears recognize the most important sonic differentials. ![]() Use a multiband EQ to match the curve of your piano to that of the reference piano. Take a snap shot of the curve (a screen grab or use the analyzer's own A/B feature if it has one) and compare it to that of your piano. Use a real time analyzer to study the EQ curve of that piano. As an experiment, find a professional recording of a real piano that sounds great in your speakers as well as your headphones- and in your car stereo, and in your iPod's ear buds and through any other listening media at your disposal. I've spent hours trying to tweak it to sound right - but it doesn't. Mjmoody wrote:My Piano sounds great in headphones and like cr!#! running through my speaker.įor some reason, no matter how I make the equalization settings with Kontakt or on my speaker, the piano sounds like it is muffled or something - especially the mid range. However, I am worried that I will have memory problems, because I have heard the Ivory system is taxing on CPU. I think that would keep me set for most gigs that I can think of. Then, I have a smaller keyboard that I plan on running Omnisphere with four patches Strings, Organ, the Lyle Mays Ocarina-like sound, and a Brass patch. I am planning on having a bank loaded in Kontakt for the Rhodes Sound, an Acoustic piano sound and a DX-7 sound. ![]() It seems that Sweetwater is having a sale on the Ivory II Italian piano. I think they made that piano back in the 90s - but, at least out of the speaker these Kontakt pianos sound muffled, especially in the mid-range. A controller is less expensive than a piano that can "control" and have sounds, and I thought certainly these sampled pianos that are in Kontakt would be better than my JV-30 sound. I've been real happy with my old JV-30 as far as just regular "Bb" jazz gigs. So, any recommendations for speakers? Also, the Ivory is definitely worth it? I've spent all kinds of money lately - but I need a good piano!! I opted to get a controller rather than piano. I'm thinking maybe the piano would sound better through a PA speaker system rather than through my one speaker - which is rather low and on wheels, but I don't know. Why do these vast sampled libraries sound so good in headphones and so bad with the amplifier? I am sure that the sampling technology is greatly improved from when they made my JV-30, but the sound of the piano through my amplifier is better when I use the JV-30 rather than the expensive Kontakt sound (or any other VI piano I have). My amplifier is a Roland KC-550, which is pretty common. As an experiment I plugged up my old JV-30 and played it through the amplifier, and it sounded like a piano again - not muffled. It doesn't have weighted keys or anything, but I play the piano, and it sounds like a piano.įor some reason, no matter how I make the equalization settings with Kontakt or on my speaker, the piano sounds like it is muffled or something - especially the mid range. The piano sound in the JV-30 was really good. I hauled in my amplifier and my JV-30, and I was all set. My old jazz gig set-up was pretty straight-forward. I'm liking the New York Grand the best of the possibilities in the Komplete package. In Komplete there are four really nicely sampled keyboards that sound pretty good over earphones. Over Christmas I got Komplete, and also a controller keyboard - 88 weighted keys - real nice. I am on this quest to do gigs with DP running tracks while also playing live. There are some very smart people here at Motunation, so, maybe someone can help. My Piano sounds great in headphones and like cr!#! running through my speaker.
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