Can anyone advise a good way to connect and set a nice piano sound with a Bose S1 pro speaker please.
I’ve tried every connection method I can think of but I cant get a decent piano sound.
Any advice on how best to connect my Nord to a Bose S1 pro and set it up would be very much appreciated.
Bose S1 pro speaker connection
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Re: Bose S1 pro speaker connection
It's going to be difficult to get a stereo-sampled piano to sound good in mono. Here's a thread that will give you some options to try:
nord-stage-forum-f3/the-dreaded-mono-wo ... tml#p93068
As a baseline, try the White Grand with the Mono button. IMO, it's the best sounding Nord piano in mono.
Regarding the Bose S1 Pro, EQ will depend upon speaker placement/position and the room you're in. A 1/4" patch cable connection is fine. Roll off the bass on the S1 if it's too boomy, otherwise, make your adjustments for highs and mids from your NE6.
nord-stage-forum-f3/the-dreaded-mono-wo ... tml#p93068
As a baseline, try the White Grand with the Mono button. IMO, it's the best sounding Nord piano in mono.
Regarding the Bose S1 Pro, EQ will depend upon speaker placement/position and the room you're in. A 1/4" patch cable connection is fine. Roll off the bass on the S1 if it's too boomy, otherwise, make your adjustments for highs and mids from your NE6.
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Re: Bose S1 pro speaker connection
Thank you ajstan I will try using the mono setting with the white grand.
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Re: Bose S1 pro speaker connection
Some ideas:Ribatutta wrote:Can anyone advise a good way to connect and set a nice piano sound with a Bose S1 pro speaker please.
I’ve tried every connection method I can think of but I cant get a decent piano sound.
Any advice on how best to connect my Nord to a Bose S1 pro and set it up would be very much appreciated.
- Did you set the S1's ToneMatch setting to OFF? --OFF setting provides full-spectrum PA output.
- You might try sending Left and Right Nord outputs separately to the S1's channels 1 & 2 for comparison to Mono out from the Nord.
- Are you using unbalanced TS (Tip-Sleeve) cables? Both the Nord and the S1's combo input expect this type of cable connector. --On one occasion I used a balanced TRS (Tip-Ring-Sleeve) plug resulting in flat sounding audio (but I recall other users reporting no issues with TRS).
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LewTheKeysGuy
Re: Bose S1 pro speaker connection
I had the S1 Pro here for a while but had to send it back, not through fault, but needing to recover funds to sort the new rig out.
It sounded rather decent on a stage 3-88, I set it using channels 1 and 2 with TRS cables, as that's what I had knocking around, tried the tone match and then no tone match, preferred it without tone match. It's an interesting speaker but I feel that regardless of whatever you do, you won't get an absolute clean sound because there's no way of panning the channels for stereo spread. the only way to do this effectively is to have 2 of the s1 pro units taking single channels but you will still have that tonal issue as such. it's a usable P.A, but for piano it's a little on the fiddly side and nothing I can think of would cure it.
lew
It sounded rather decent on a stage 3-88, I set it using channels 1 and 2 with TRS cables, as that's what I had knocking around, tried the tone match and then no tone match, preferred it without tone match. It's an interesting speaker but I feel that regardless of whatever you do, you won't get an absolute clean sound because there's no way of panning the channels for stereo spread. the only way to do this effectively is to have 2 of the s1 pro units taking single channels but you will still have that tonal issue as such. it's a usable P.A, but for piano it's a little on the fiddly side and nothing I can think of would cure it.
lew