ABCharlie

too late. I had no idea it is some kind of sensitive topic here I'm waiting for Friday's rehearsal to check things you guys suggested. In the meantime I started looking for portable PA stereo systems. The one I mentioned in my previous post is called Spacestation V3 Is it worth the money, or for ~900EUR I can get something better?

Singers, piano and guitar player, as well as the mixer, we are all located on the left side of altar, around 1.5m away from those Bose speakers. We're quite far away from the other side. So next time I'm there I will check if the setup is actually stereo (we have separate L/R inputs in the wall where we connect mixer, but as you suggested it doesnt mean anything). There is no one else to take care of that so I have to learn. When the mixer-guy realized I know what are "those buttons" he's pressing for (HPF, EQ knobs, Comp), he instantly wanted to give me control over mixer. I've played a lot with settings and was able to make vocals and guitar sound right (quite a few 'trips' to the center of church for soundcheck ). Unfortunately, I failed with piano. What's intetesting, Pianoteq Rhodes sounded OK-ish, not even one third as muddied as AP, and it was stereo sample by default. I don't care if 'I' will experience bad sound, so I do not need additional monitoring. I just really want for people in house to have great and inspiring musical experience. In case the church soundsystem is 'guilty' here, what would be your recommendation for portable, good quality stereo PA? I might use it for small vocal+piano gigs in the near future. I've read somewhere about sth called SSV3, or svs3, I don't remember exact name.

There is a guy who tries to operate the mixer, but his knowledge is based on what some other guy told him in the past ("press this button, turn that knob right, don't touch other things"). So basically he has no idea. And I don't blame him, he's a volunteer and tries his best. I fiddled with mixer last time and at least was able to make vocals EQ and levels acceptable. For piano, I first connected L and R to 2 separate channels next to each other, panned one of them hard left, second hard right, set EQ to neutral levels but it did not help a lot. Then I switched for stereo input (also with 2 separate TRS connectors) but within one channel and there is no pan knob there. Result was the same, terrible..

Hi All, Long time reader, not very frequent poster here. I recently started playing in one of local churches and I struggle to make my pianos sound right. I used to play with a band in some cafes, bars and pubs in the past and never had such issues since I used Electric Pianos and synths mostly. Soundsystem in church is 4x Bose Panaray MA12 (2x each side, placed vertical). My piano+ vocals are connected to it by Yamaha MG20 mixer. I use Roland FP10 as a MIDI controller, Ravenscroft 275 and Pianoteq 6 for APs, connected to mixer in stereo. The issue is, it sounds terribly muddy, drawn in some kind of strange reverb, boxy, unclear. I zeroed reverb on my pianos but it made no difference. I suspect it's caused by phasing issues of stereo samples in such environment (I've been intensively reading internet forums for the last week regarding this issue). I had no chance to test it yet, but I assume: Should I play my VSTs in mono? Should I narrow Ravenscroft stereo width to 1% and use Side mics (I've read somewhere, that Side perspective in VI Labs pianos are best suited for mono)? Last 2 times I was trying to use Close mics in 100% stereo width. For Pianoteq, should I choose "Monophonic" output? When I do all of above, should I still use stereo connection to mixer? I think it doesn't make sense, when I'm using mono samples. The other option might be that those Bose speakers are not appropriate for music playing (I've checked specs and it doesn't look promising for music). Do you think the best option would be to carry my own PA? When I played on my FP10 internal speakers (max volume) in empty church, although it was not very loud, not loud enough for sure when the church is full, the sound was much clearer than my VST setup connected to church soundsystem. I would appreciate any comments and suggestions. Thanks in advance.

My S7 (same OS as S3) took around 38s to boot. A few seconds quicker than Grandstage. I remember there were some bugs in the OS, occuring when intensively switching patches. Maybe they improved it. Also, new 'platinum' sounds seem to be significant improvement over previous pianos, judging by YouTube videos. Though, I would rate EPs not very high, especially Rhodes. If you can live with aesthetics, it's a nice instrument. Maybe new 'PRO' series is a bit overpriced.