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electro 6 HD unexplained behavior

Postby cichy11 » 05 Oct 2021, 21:23

Hoping someone has experienced this and has some suggestions. My electro 6 recently started sounding terrible through several different setups. I have used both new stereo cables and mono cables into a mackey board, a zoom board and direct to a Roland amp. In all situations the channel with any amount of playing starts to sound like a blown speaker would sound. The PA and everything else sounds fine when not getting sound from the Nord. When listened to from the headphone jack on the nord everything sounds normal.

Has anyone experienced anything like this? Is there something wrong with the output jacks? Should I try a factory reset?

Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: electro 6 HD unexplained behavior

Postby ericL » 05 Oct 2021, 22:21

Are you using a single Roland amp? That could be the issue - monitoring Nords in mono is not all that pleasing. Stereo is the way to go. Also, Roland amps (depending on model) don't sound great compared to other alternatives. Also, your combo of cables into a board and then to an amp could be creating some phase cancellation if there's a stereo signal going from the Nord to the board and then mono from the board to the amp.

Have you tried running direct to the PA in stereo?
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Re: electro 6 HD unexplained behavior

Postby JohnT » 05 Oct 2021, 22:37

If running stereo, make sure you pan the input channels of the mixer hard left and hard right.
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Re: electro 6 HD unexplained behavior

Postby harmonizer » 06 Oct 2021, 17:56

It sounds like you are saying the sound produced out of your Roland amp is highly distorted - and that you are not just saying it is "non optimum", but incredibly distorted.
Am I understanding you correctly?

Some Roland keyboard amps have a single XLR jack which can take an input directly from a dynamic mic.
Are you taking the output routed from your Nord keyboard (either directly, or from another mixing board) to an XLR jack on your Roland amp, or are you connecting it to a more conventional 1/4" input jack?

I am wondering if something could have messed up the circuitry which produces the audio output signal from your Nord,
but if somehow the circuitry which sends output via the headphone jack was not effected.
If a cable having a strong output signal from another source was connected to one of your Nord's audio output jacks, this might have caused a problem.

You could try connecting a single 1/4 cable (mono "TS"cable) to the headphone output jack of your Nord Electro 6,
and connecting that to one of the input jacks on your Roland amp.
If headphones sound ok when connected to the headphone output jack of your Nord Electro 6,
then this method should result in clean sound coming out of your Roland amp (to the extent that a Roland amp produces clean sound, ha-ha).
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Re: electro 6 HD unexplained behavior

Postby cichy11 » 08 Oct 2021, 22:22

thanks folks for you replies. Going to experiment with your suggestions tonight. Just got back to town.
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