recording keyboards on digital recorder

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Member Since: Dec 05, 2004

im new to recording keyboards and i have a problem,first il tell you what im doing. im recording layered tracks of melodies from different keyboards to make songs, the main keyboard being a triton extreme, onto a decent korg digital recorder. the problem is this: when i play the keyboards on speakers or earphones when im practising or whatever, the sound quality is perfect, as youd expect, but when im recording, putting two leads into two tracks of the recorder, the sound quality becomes dull and FLAT. why is this happening and what can i do??? the results i get from the tritons sequencer are fine but i need to record my songs on the recorder to bring in other instruments and vocals. im sure the problem is fundamental but as i said im new to this.

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Since: Sep 12, 2003


Dec 06, 2004 07:13 am

Mine do the same thing even when I record in stereo. What helps me big time, which this might sound weird, is compression. Course, I do PC recording where you have a digital board, but I use a compression plug in with a setting for keyboards. Purhaps a graphic eq to juice it up? I've seen many keyboardist that have a whole rack for their instrument with compressor, eq, and such to get a nice sound.

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