Hello Guys, I have a technical question and it is the following.
What is the best pedal configuration and injection boxes to be able to give stability and balance to the sound of two keyboards at the same time in concert.
(Korg Pa4x76 and Nord Stage 3)
What I want to achieve basically is:
1. stability with injection boxes
2. turn up the volume with a Booster, and
3. flesh out the sound with a compressor.
I thank you very much for the help or suggestion to this concern
What option is there for pedals and injection boxes?
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What option is there for pedals and injection boxes?
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Korghelper
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Sounds like you are really looking for a small footprint mixer…
I use a tiny Yamaha MG06X 6-channel Mixer with Effects but it has no compression. Very small, a great Swiss Army Knife audio toolbox for all kinds of situations, sounds good, decent reverb (if you need to add another mic or two to your stage rig for guests to use).
To be honest, I’d advise against using a final compressor on a two keyboard rig… For starters, both keyboards themselves have capable compressors built in. And applying a final compressor to the whole thing runs the risk of one of the keyboards ‘ducking’ the other one if it gets a bit loud. And, although compression can give the initial impression of stability to a sound, it can end up easily crushing all your dynamics and making your sound flat and unexciting. Arrangers have little enough dynamics in the first place, why reduce them further?!
If your problem is uneven volume between songs or styles, the place to work on that is the data itself… turn up the volume on the quiet ones, reduce the volume on the loud ones and write it to memory! Soon enough you’ll find your whole show well balanced, but still dynamic.
I use a tiny Yamaha MG06X 6-channel Mixer with Effects but it has no compression. Very small, a great Swiss Army Knife audio toolbox for all kinds of situations, sounds good, decent reverb (if you need to add another mic or two to your stage rig for guests to use).
To be honest, I’d advise against using a final compressor on a two keyboard rig… For starters, both keyboards themselves have capable compressors built in. And applying a final compressor to the whole thing runs the risk of one of the keyboards ‘ducking’ the other one if it gets a bit loud. And, although compression can give the initial impression of stability to a sound, it can end up easily crushing all your dynamics and making your sound flat and unexciting. Arrangers have little enough dynamics in the first place, why reduce them further?!
If your problem is uneven volume between songs or styles, the place to work on that is the data itself… turn up the volume on the quiet ones, reduce the volume on the loud ones and write it to memory! Soon enough you’ll find your whole show well balanced, but still dynamic.
