Posted by: YamahaAndy
Yamaha Tyros + RME Fireface 800 sound check - 05/03/05 03:15 PM
Hi all!
Tonight I sound checked Yamaha Tyros in combination with my new RME Fireface 800 audio interface. Since someone had asked me to post something after my home studio was recently finished, I thought tonight before I was leaving the studio, yeah sure, so I made a clip afterwards and posted it online, especially for you...
First of all, let me tell you this. It is a very short clip that was made very fast. I didn't mind so much what I was playing, only improvising (all was made real time to audio without MIDI or metronome, drums were inserted in the middle so it was untight), I was more focusing on sound checking the Yamaha Tyros with my RME Fireface 800 and try to edit in Cubase SX to see if I learn anything new about that way of working. The noise you hear in the beginning is due to the guitar I play(that's my Richie Sambora USA strat), I was going through a tubescreamer off directly to the mixer and with much too high gain on that channel (trim set very high). A noise gate would have reduced that noise pretty effectively. The signal path in the RME Fireface 800 is quiet like sh**, I swear...! Furthermore I didn't equalize the tracks or put any compressor on the master, it was just recorded directly. So you will notice that it sounds a little dark and that some instruments are a little too quiet. (it was about 5 audio tracks)
It was a very exiting evening for me because I learned that it is not Cakewalk I want to edit in after all, it is Cubase SX and the reason is that it is much more user friendly and also more powerful (except that it doesn't handle 192 KHz sampling rate)!
Overall I am satisfied with the way the Yamaha Tyros sounded on the recording. I am very new to audio recording and have almost no experiences with audio recording or audio interfaces in general, so this is by no means any professional work. I think that the Fireface was able to convert the analog sound pretty good (it was recorded on ADC and then mixdown without DAC)
You can download the song from this address in MP3 format (1,7 MB):
ArtistYamahaAndy - Sound check Yamaha Tyros + RME Fireface 800
Best regards,
YamahaAndy
Tonight I sound checked Yamaha Tyros in combination with my new RME Fireface 800 audio interface. Since someone had asked me to post something after my home studio was recently finished, I thought tonight before I was leaving the studio, yeah sure, so I made a clip afterwards and posted it online, especially for you...
First of all, let me tell you this. It is a very short clip that was made very fast. I didn't mind so much what I was playing, only improvising (all was made real time to audio without MIDI or metronome, drums were inserted in the middle so it was untight), I was more focusing on sound checking the Yamaha Tyros with my RME Fireface 800 and try to edit in Cubase SX to see if I learn anything new about that way of working. The noise you hear in the beginning is due to the guitar I play(that's my Richie Sambora USA strat), I was going through a tubescreamer off directly to the mixer and with much too high gain on that channel (trim set very high). A noise gate would have reduced that noise pretty effectively. The signal path in the RME Fireface 800 is quiet like sh**, I swear...! Furthermore I didn't equalize the tracks or put any compressor on the master, it was just recorded directly. So you will notice that it sounds a little dark and that some instruments are a little too quiet. (it was about 5 audio tracks)
It was a very exiting evening for me because I learned that it is not Cakewalk I want to edit in after all, it is Cubase SX and the reason is that it is much more user friendly and also more powerful (except that it doesn't handle 192 KHz sampling rate)!
Overall I am satisfied with the way the Yamaha Tyros sounded on the recording. I am very new to audio recording and have almost no experiences with audio recording or audio interfaces in general, so this is by no means any professional work. I think that the Fireface was able to convert the analog sound pretty good (it was recorded on ADC and then mixdown without DAC)
You can download the song from this address in MP3 format (1,7 MB):
ArtistYamahaAndy - Sound check Yamaha Tyros + RME Fireface 800
Best regards,
YamahaAndy