MAYBE EUREKA

[♔Chello]

MAYBE EUREKA

After much back and forth, I think (again..?) that I have now finally found the ultimate way to remix everything:
My desire to reduce the average level of all styles from about 110 to 63 is absolute, because this eliminates any problems with distortion found on many of the Pa5X's internal styles, and also allows more effective use of effects.
I want this distortion gone, because I am hyperallergic to distortion.

What has been the most difficult to adjust has been drums and perc, because there are almost never enough resources to adjust all elements.

A simple way to solve this is to add the desired effects in Master FX A, and use MFX Send to adjust all tracks with.
I only need two effects to achieve what I want, and these can be placed in MFX Send FX1 and FX2 (or FX3).
Korg's adjustments are mostly added to Insert FX, and Master FX A is only slightly used, which means that this should be able to work in most cases.

I place my effects where the fewest adjustments have been made.
With this set-up I can keep as much as possible of all Insert FX effects, which turns out to be necessary, because the entire soundscape is built on these.
So far this looks promising.


Eureka..? 

[♔Chello]

  Fool Funky Love original.mp3 (Size: 5.31 MB / Downloads: 7)

  Fool Funky Love ADmasterFx processed.mp3 (Size: 5.26 MB / Downloads: 10)

[⚖musicalmemoriesuk]

Sounds good, it feels like it’s being played in a studio.

[♔Chello]

Sounds good, it feels like it’s being played in a studio.

Funny that you say it feels like it's being played in a studio (with controlled acoustics), because it's precisely this acoustic that I've aimed to recreate.

The original acoustics are actually louder, and too loud for my taste.
Many styles also have too much acoustics added with Q-verb as Master effect, and in such cases I remove this, because it crashes Stereo Compressor when this is also used as Master effect - everything runs completely wild.

Korg's version is much more detailed in general than my version, but I find that the details become annoyingly intrusive and too sharp.
My version has more detail in the extremes of the frequency range, which makes it sound better at relatively high sound pressures, while Korg's cannot withstand high sound pressures.

I try to optimize at 70-80dB sound pressure, which I physically measure with a dB meter.

[⚖musicalmemoriesuk]

Yes we are lucky in that respect we can make things our own in our own way.

[♔Chello]

Yes we are lucky in that respect we can make things our own in our own way.

Just that.
My world is characterized by how HiFi is and should sound, and I want the keyboard to sound like that, and not like a sound system with an over-focus on the midrange.

In fact, most bass units say little below 35Hz, and most treble units say little above 17kHz.
My Pa system goes from about 8Hz to 30kHz and the Pa5X is capable of almost covering this range.
My ears cover it, while most users have neither ears nor equipment for this.

This is probably the reason why the majority of sound engineers do not spend resources on clarifying low and high frequencies.

My private setup is therefore very different from what I present as a finished product to the users - they will end up with burnt speaker units and dead amplifiers if they had played my private versions at a fairly realistic sound pressure (70-80dB).

I am therefore trying to present a product that anyone with a reasonably good Pa system can play at this sound level without such risks.