Originally posted by Beakybird:
I don't get what a mixer can do to enhance the sound, Scott. The keyboard already has an internal mixer. What do you mix? The eq? Something else?
Beakybird
I don't know the technical reasons for this. Someone else can probably explain why it is.
A couple of things come to mind about this. I remember playing in a very large hall with high ceiling. It was kind of like a gymnasium. It was one live room, a lot of echo etc. I went out front to listen to my demo for a sound check and it didn't sound that good. I hooked up the mixer, which I always leave set to flat, and the change in sound quality and projection improved noticibly. Even my wife who was totally skeptical about it was so surprized her face dropped.
I also remember trying it at home on the Tyros and the PSR3000, again only set to flat. Both sounded better. Richer and cleaner, crisper. The 3000 which is great does not sound identical to the Tyros. When I tried it on the 3K, to me the sound quality improved to about the Tyros on like instruments and styles. Of course the 3K doesn't have all the same sounds available and some of the sounds with the same name are different. BUT, what was the same improved to a much more agreeable sound.
Try one just as a test. Set if flat. I'd be curious to see what your slant is on it after that. You can always return the mixer, if you get it from someone with a return policy.
Scott