I have a digital piano - Yamaha Clavinova CLP-240. I also have a mixer - Allen Heath Zed 10-FX which I use to record myself. My piano has stereo RCA output which I connect to stereo RCA-input channel on my mixer, and then connect mixer USB output port to my laptop on which I record myself.
When I listen to myself through the mixer's headphone monitor port, the piano sounds like a toy tin-can piano - the sounds is far from what my piano actually outputs. When the sounds gets recorded over the USB, it sounds exactly like the piano does.
So, in the end, no critical problem there - I can listen to myself through piano headphone output, and it's all good, since the recording faithfully reproduces the piano sound, but if I added something else in the mix (like voice, or guitar, for example) and wanted to listen to myself, the mixer sound is incredibly bad.
Why is that? The only controls on the piano channel (not the XLR input channel!) are: HF, MF, FX and amplification. FX is set to 0, and I'm not using any effects. I had to tune HF and MF filters to get something reasonably close to the actual piano sound in the headphone monitor channel, otherwise the sound I hear lacks the depth completely.
Thanks.
When I listen to myself through the mixer's headphone monitor port, the piano sounds like a toy tin-can piano - the sounds is far from what my piano actually outputs. When the sounds gets recorded over the USB, it sounds exactly like the piano does.
So, in the end, no critical problem there - I can listen to myself through piano headphone output, and it's all good, since the recording faithfully reproduces the piano sound, but if I added something else in the mix (like voice, or guitar, for example) and wanted to listen to myself, the mixer sound is incredibly bad.
Why is that? The only controls on the piano channel (not the XLR input channel!) are: HF, MF, FX and amplification. FX is set to 0, and I'm not using any effects. I had to tune HF and MF filters to get something reasonably close to the actual piano sound in the headphone monitor channel, otherwise the sound I hear lacks the depth completely.
Thanks.
