Thank you so much!
- Genos
- JBL 306 MKII
- Shure Sm-35
- I'm not sure which EQ TO use - Some say Gold, Some say other. I have no idea
- I think i got good cables but willing to buy different
- I'm in the basement. A very quiet environment. From the speakers everything sounds amazing
Also - why cables will be any factor. The sound from the speakers is beautiful, It is the recording outcome that is terrible and forgets about my own sound for a moment.
I just want the Genos to sound really good when it is played on other systems. Like my car, mp3 etc
It seems that others achieve this very easily
Good sounding records is a world on it's own. You need to have some basic mixing and mastering knowledge if you want to do these things yourself.
You don't give many details but my guess is that you record the output of the Genos in Cubase 10.5, probably with the EQ-Gold settings. In my opinion this is where the first mistake happens. Those settings may sounds nice on your speakers, but basically what you did with those EQ settings is raising the volume through EQ and distorted the audio spectrum and headroom of the complete signal you are recording in cubase. That will never sound good on different kind of listening devices, due to the destroyed headroom in your signal.
If you do the mixing and mastering yourself in cubase then record the genos output with the Flat EQ settings (although this keeps the 480 hz resonance peak) or use my EQ and compressor settings which modifies the genos output to a more open transparant output.
you can see those settings in my post at:
https://www.psrtutorial.com/forum/index.php/topic,52172.0.htmlAnother very easy thing to do is to record your performance on the genos itself through audio quick recording, this avoids all the external cable problems you are mentioning. Here's a song which i recorded on the genos through audio quick recording with my EQ settings as mentioned in the thread above settings and put it directly under the video.
Yamaha genos: Angelfalls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iWoVSFT1RgIf you like this sound, then just add the EQ and Compressor settings from my post in a user slot on your own genos and record the song with quick record, you will get the same sound as in the video.
Then some basic things you could check:
- Record with different EQ settings then the EQ Gold settings (those are really not suitable for recording, only for listening purposes).
- When recording in cubase, be sure that you record in Stereo, this has to be set up in the connection settings of cubase, because mono recordings will sound lifeless and you can face phasing issues when combining a stereo signal into mono.
- Use the correct gain in cubase when recording, it's much better to record with -1 db (or more) headroom space to give you the breathing room for doing your mixing and mastering yourself (like maximizing, EQ-ing), etc
- When creating your sound for platforms like youtube , spotify, soundcloud, keep in mind that they will analyse your song and use their own algorithm to reprocess your sound. So never upload anything with a value higher than -1db (this value depends on the platform), also the maximum LUFS level is very important, when setting this to high your end result will sound very bad when the reprocessing is done. If you have no clue what things like maximizing, lufs and headroom are, then just record the song directly on the genos instead of recording it in cubase.
Hope this helps.
