recording nord grand and monitoring?

[amahbod]

Hi all,

I have been trying to record my nord grand (audio, not midi) AND monitor it at the same time. I currently have a Nord Grand, the Nord piano V2 monitors, and assumed I needed an interface (got a Audient id14).

Prior to recording, I had "left/right out" from the nord grand plugging into the left/right input on the piano v2 monitors. Sounded great.

To try to record, I plugged in the interface by doing...

- Audient id14 plugged into m1 macbook via Thunderbolt 4 cable.
- Nord grand left/right out via a TS cable (unbalanced) plugged into Audient via the mic/line 1 and mic/line 2 combo XLR inputs on the back of the Audient.
- Audient 1L and 2R output plugged into Nord Piano monitor v2's left and right channel.

The quality of the audio to the monitor is way worse, and is lower. I tried fiddling with the master level on the nord, the gain input on the audient for both channel 1 and 2, and also the output level (the speaker) on the audient. It always sounds quieter and tends to clip if i make it too loud.

Also when using headphones to plug into the front of the audient, the sound is very quiet and I can't seem to get it loud enough to drown out the mechanical thunking of the keys without the volume clipping.

Am I doing something dumb?

Thanks!
amahbod

[docbop]

I don't use Audient but have a Presonus Studio 68c I use in the same way. With the Presonus I need to hit the switch for direct monitoring to monitor the piano sound coming into the Presonus inputs.

[FZiegler]

Maybe, you still need to pan Audient 1L and 2R to hard left and right in the stereo panorama. Or combine both to one stereo channel. Which might be done through some sort of driver or configurator software for the interface on your computer.

[Beemer2]

Did you get this resolved? My Grand arrives next week and I have an Audient id44

[cphollis]

The issue appears to be with the audio output of your interface. You can either try to resolve it, or use the headphone jack for monitoring purposes.

You did not mention if you got a clean recording, or not. In that configuration, the audio interface is usually being fed by your DAW. If your DAW is outputing garbage, you will hear garbage!

[Beemer2]

Amahbod,
Did you read the monitor installation instructions? It warns that there is a higher voltage on the cable connecting the speakers.