Hi Keynote
I am picking up quite a few things and here is my tack on things so far.
You have Gold settings and quality equipment and decent monitor speakers
Your music sounds really good on the quality side.
I have a modern type Jarre song that I have been playing with the past month and just have a little more to do as I have been playing It on my stereo and in the car to get a good idea where I am at. I am determined to get It right before posting here on this forum and then critical remarks would be appreciated.
I have done the gain staging In Cubase and eqing and finally exported to wave, but as I said still not happy at the moment. I need the drums up a little and the lead synth and more warmth.
Now, Eileen has told us how she does It and I tried Eileens way by main volume at one o'clock and faders at 127 for a quick recording. Recording flat without eq and compression in the Master area. I thought It best to start like this because Eileen uses the Genos System speakers which would be similar to the Tyros speakers. For this I used headphones to get in that ballpark and then try It out on bigger speakers for the test
Yes ,you can fiddle with the eq's and effects etc and and balance and then record Eileens way.
I compared her recording with my Tyros 5 recordings and they were all roughly around the same area taking into account of different genre's.
I had some great recordings off the Tyros, but could not achieve that on the Genos to my satisfaction.
I also know that the Genos is a far better keyboard and It has then got to be pilot era. So if all ok Cubase to do the little nuances.
The thing with recording and mixing Is that if you record too low things can become a lot harder to achieve a decent quality level as everything has to work harder and I have found out exactly that with some background noise going through my Focusrite 6i6. Too much gain.. Yes, you can gate It out with a noise filter.
I think that i recorded too low as my faders on everything was about halfway and trying to leave headroom.
I have now come to the point i want to now make.
With the Genos what is considered Input gain other than cranking up effects, because In Cubase you set the input gains to about -12 db for each track.
This is why i am thinking that to get a decent level with the Genos some sort of gain is needed to get into the ballpark.
The Genos has a volume knob and volume sliders for recoording midi in this case and recordings can come out stronger than others even at the same level without going into the red.
What i am trying to say is how do we get the Genos to the way we perceive sound rather than cranking the volume up to get the same result
If we just crank the volume up and do not go into the red the recordings can sound half the sound perception of a CD track quality.
So It is great to hear how other people record their music because I am still learning.
I do practice a lot and have fun ,but I also like learning.
When you put music on Soundcloud etc your recordings can sound weaker as they put limiters on it and squash to mp3 power, but some learned people get over that somehow and that is all to do with how we perceive sound. Anyone for a LUF!!!
It would be nice If Yamaha did a tutorial on this sort of thing rather than how to save files etc.
Dont get me wrong, I am getting there slowly.
All the best
John