HI All,

Its been about a month with my new PSR S-950. Its a wonderful board barring the onboard speaker sound which I sorely miss from my previous S900. Is there any settings you could suggest where I could get it close to the S900 sound. Im sure there are several members who would have experimented and would be willing to share their experience.

Also, Im planning to buy the EV PL44 Microphone to use with the S950. Any comments on that. Is there anything better at the same price point.

Thanks and Cheers

Sunny

Sunny,

Just a few slight changes in the master EQ will make a huge difference. The standard smiley doesn't seem to work well with the S950, though. Just a slight increase in the mid range sounds and leave the highs and lows pretty much flat works well for me.

Gary

any suggestions on Eq Tyros 4 I have never messed with master EQ

Tyros 5 will be in my Hands Saturday T 5 76

you have to EQ for YOUR sound systems & different rooms and save for each one.Let your EARS be your guide

Gary. Thanks for the inputs. I agree with the smiley setting. It's not sounding as I thought it would. I shall tweak some more and see how it goes.

Cheers

Sunny

You are so right. I'm gonna do just that.

Thanks a ton

I left mine flat, then maybe slight adjustment for each venue, if needed.

^^^

If you need to EQ the overall sound ALL the time, with different systems, something is messed up with the basic sound!

Hi Diki,

How do you mean ? Hopefully theres nothing wrong with the speakers. I dont think so since they sound clear but the finesse of the S900 isnt there.

Cheers
Sunny

Simply that I feel all too often nowadays, the Master EQ and Compression is set to define the overall 'sound' of an arranger, rather than the arranger sound that good to start with, then the EQ and compression are used as corrective tools to compensate for different speaker systems and playing environments.

First thing I do with any arranger is turn all that stuff off, and try to listen to it uncolored. I generally find it sounds more natural, and less squashed. Admittedly, I have some pretty decent studio monitors to play it through (and a nice flat PA system), but even so, I have a problem with how hyped much of that stuff makes the arrangers sound. I know there's a tendency in modern music, radio, satellite, and the way modern CD's are mastered to have a FAR more squashed, limited and EQ's sound... The kids today are spending their discretionary income on smartphones and iPads rather than a killer set of hifi speakers like they did in the 70's, so this stuff needs doing to sound decent on a crappy set of computer monitors.

But for those of us with PA's and decent speakers, I feel it only serves to make the sound LESS realistic, not more.

Very thoughtful Diki. Points picked up. I'm gonna start from scratch and work up to get the sound I need. U r right. Today we rely highly on digital tweaking ignoring the natural sounds which are at the bottom of the layers of fx.

Thanks for the inputs. Appreciate it.