flatfender

New guy here. Long time lurker. First post. Keyboard, vocalist and bass guitar player for 40+ years. Used to be in the Pro Sound (live) and had a recording studio business for a long time too, but got out about 10 years ago. Anyway, I read this entire 89 page thread (whew!) over the past weekend and I've decided to jump in and buy a SSV3 and give it a try. One of the bands I play in currently is doing "New Country" covers and I've been using a Korg Trinity Pro (76) and a Korg M50 (61) going thru a Mackie Profx8 into a couple of powered JBL Eon 510's on poles. I love the stereo sound of the JBLs, but we play on alot of tight stages and the JBL's take up alot of room along with the keyboard rig (more than the drummer even). I've tried using a bunch of different borrowed "Keyboard" amps and my bass amps (I play bass in another band), but they were mainly mono, harsh, or even dull. I have a couple of GK MK200's (meh) that started me on the way to using stereo monitoring years ago and progressed to the powered Eons that took it to a giant step forward in quality. 25% or more of the songs we do require a pedal steel patch (which the Trinity does wonderfully btw) but even the Eons are a little sharp. Loud on stage but not so much FOH sometimes without going thru the PA. We mix from stage 99% of the time with no sound engineer. Just me running back and forth checking levels. It sounds like the SSV3 may be the ticket and it's worth it to me to give it a try in both size and quality. Looks like 99% of you that have them, love them. Game on. Scott