Re: Organ Section Quiet
Posted: 26 Dec 2022, 11:42
I recently experienced my organ sounds being incredibly quiet. For some time they've been slightly quieter than the piano. When soundchecking I would have master gain set to 12 o'clock for piano and organ I would set to 2 o'clock. A bit of a faff.
Now having experienced the almost complete degradation of the organ sounds I felt I needed to explore further. Interestingly (well to me anyway), the organ volume was fine when connecting an expression pedal in the organ swell.
Having reviewed a number of threads on this forum, and not finding a satisfactory explanation I think I may have stumbled upon something. I racked my brains for what I may have done to trigger this problem and remembered experimenting with a new damper pedal, the Roland DP-10. In the course of trying it out, I recollected accidentally connecting it to the Control Pedal input (someone on a similar thread had suggested this may be a cause), so I got that pedal out again, reconnected it to the control pedal input and experimented with it. Well the default appears to be to act as a volume pedal, disengaged is quiet and volume increasing as you engage it. I depressed the pedal fully and while holding it at this level I switched off the Nord Stage. I removed the Roland pedal from the Control Pedal input and switched my Nord Stage on again...fingers crossed. Well it worked, it appears when the pedal is connected it saves whatever setting is active when you power down, the default being quiet.
I decided to recreate my problem and solution and found it to be the case. So I depressed the pedal to a reasonable volume and switched off, saving this volume.
Now I have an organ that us equally as loud, if not slightly louder than the piano.
Hope this helps anyone experiencing a similar issue
Now having experienced the almost complete degradation of the organ sounds I felt I needed to explore further. Interestingly (well to me anyway), the organ volume was fine when connecting an expression pedal in the organ swell.
Having reviewed a number of threads on this forum, and not finding a satisfactory explanation I think I may have stumbled upon something. I racked my brains for what I may have done to trigger this problem and remembered experimenting with a new damper pedal, the Roland DP-10. In the course of trying it out, I recollected accidentally connecting it to the Control Pedal input (someone on a similar thread had suggested this may be a cause), so I got that pedal out again, reconnected it to the control pedal input and experimented with it. Well the default appears to be to act as a volume pedal, disengaged is quiet and volume increasing as you engage it. I depressed the pedal fully and while holding it at this level I switched off the Nord Stage. I removed the Roland pedal from the Control Pedal input and switched my Nord Stage on again...fingers crossed. Well it worked, it appears when the pedal is connected it saves whatever setting is active when you power down, the default being quiet.
I decided to recreate my problem and solution and found it to be the case. So I depressed the pedal to a reasonable volume and switched off, saving this volume.
Now I have an organ that us equally as loud, if not slightly louder than the piano.
Hope this helps anyone experiencing a similar issue