Nord User Forum

Hi Guys,

This forum has always been particularly helpful to me, and I have a general question to ask:

When you have a keyboard rig set up, you have many volume options ie volume pot on the actual keyboard; volume pot on your mixing desk; volume pot on your monitor speaker/Headphones.

My question is: Which configuration will give you maximum clarity? ie high on the board , low on the desk, high on the heaphones etc etc

Many Thanks in advance,

Steve

Keyboard first is the general rule - i would say.
But: everything in the audio chain "can" change the sound. It can happen (for example), that there is a headphone-amplifier that adds a little high frequencies and you think that will make the sound more clear.

You should get the sound on the board right and than use following gain knobs "lesser".

But i would argue that many people are able to hear these minor differences at all.

I've read somewhere that for any unit, the correct volume output, at 0db, is with the Pot at max. I do that for my Stage 2, C2, D50 and Nord Lead 2 X. For the 2 pure Analog Synths, the P08 and the P12, I'm usually at 3/4, like 3 O'clock as I might sometimes saturate the output section, so, I adjust it between 3 O' Clock to max. All expanders are at max. Then I turn each channel in order to have Odb on the mixer. And finally, I adjust the volume of the power speaker (Yorkville Ps-10P) around 12, then, I still have a good reserve of power if guitarist is going crazy....I think this is the best way to get the gain/volume/sound in trying to have everything at Unity gain before the main volume on your speakers.

Excellent answer Quai, that makes so much sense.

Steve