This is one of the best videos I’ve seen regarding this topic. Thanks for the help!

I kinda suspected this but was searching high and low to hear it officially from a pro. Nice video, thanks

what you said from minute 5:35 to 6:10 is something that is extremely important. small detail but very important. especially if you aren't trained as an audio tech.

Thank you. This applies to live sound in general.

Very useful, thanks!

Hi Chuck, thanks for your useful demonstration. Regarding your video " studio vs live" how in opposite way to record in a smal concert room with piano and vocal, to produce stereo recording. I assume it need to place one mic to each vocal/piano on mono onto a digital recorder or an audio sound card? perhaps I'm a bit confuse...

Thanks Chuck.

Thank you for this explanation

Very very very helpful

Good info, thanks.

Hi chuck, this was very useful and helpful. Do you know if this is true for electronic drums as well ?

Nicely explained! Exception: If you are recording a live performance and/or are running stereo IEM's you should run in stereo to the FOH system. Then you can have your recording and IEM's sound better in stereo but your room can get mono from the FOH engineer.

Very helpful

Well Explained Sir 🥰👍🏻

I can’t find a video regarding home playing. What sounds better? Mono or stereo? What gives a digital piano it’s best sound while playing at home. Not just playing quietly but with the volume up a bit. I’m in a single dwelling home playing in my basement family room so I can have the volume up a little. What will sound the best to me sitting at the piano playing? I have a Korg grand stage.

thanks man

Very useful Chuck and food for thought as I always assumed stereo was best even for live band work. I have the Kronos X and as well as piano use many synth voices including strings, organs, synth pads etc, would you apply the mono principle to those sounds?

@PianoManChuck

9 жыл бұрын

Bruce Glanville Depends - synth, pads, etc are something you might want to pan from left to right and back during a performance. But for piano, it really doesn't cut through the rest of the band very well unless its mono.

Great video. What happens to things like a ping pong delay in mono? Will it shift between L and R front of house speakers? Thank you.

I have been playing mono all this time, but I would like to try stereo when I play as a soloist. I play live, though. I always plug the jack into the L/R mono and then the other end into the pa or the keyboard amp.

@51MontyPython

4 жыл бұрын

Hi there. If you could, how does playing through a PA differ from using a keyboard amp? (just trying to learn this stuff)

What about phase cancellation? Don't a lot of keyboard samples (piano, EP with panning, organ with rotary) lose some important aspects of their sound when combined into mono because of phase cancellation? And what if you have L & R outs (Studiologic Numa Compact 2/2x) where the L doesn't sum L+R?

The cancellation he talks about is worse when two speakers are playing the exact same signal. It's called "comb effect" To send your keyboard to speakers in stereo, with each speaker playing different sounds, means no cancellation. So a stereo feed is better than a mono feed. Say a keyboard is playing a 200 hertz signal out of two speakers. Some places in the venue will receive a positive peak of the wave from each speaker and 200 hertz will sound loud. Someone next to them will receive a positive peak of the signal from one speaker and a negative peak from the other speaker, and that person won't hear the 200 hertz signal. 210 hertz will be different. If you plot what each spot is hearing on a graph, the plot looks like a comb. Full of peaks and valleys. So it is better to send signals to an audience in stereo, bearing in mind that you need people on the far left of the audience to be able to hear the right speakers content too; so full panning may not be the best suggestion, but panning (the balance knob) slightly left for the keyboards left output, and slightly right for the right output, reduces comb effect.

how do you come out of the headphone jack and go into a portable recorder and do left and right? Thanks

@51MontyPython

4 жыл бұрын

Did you ever find the answer?

hi, chuck... thanks for the post ( but, hmmm... the stereo & mono comparisons actually sounded identical in headphones -- could there have been an oops during that part of the demo, maybe?? i.e., the mono sample sounded as rich/wide as the stereo sample) i actually have a ZOOM H6 ( and also viewed you H4 video, coincidentally) and was trying to record the killer stereo sound combo patches using 1/4" L&R out of Kronos88 into two 1/4" H6 inputs. However, when I use those same headphones and try to monitor what I am recording into the H6 via its 1/8" headphone out --- omg, it sounds awful. Dead. All the stereo richness/phasing is gone. Is this typical, perhaps, and something that will need to correct once I take the two H6 wav files (L&R) into Final Cut Pro X and, I suppose, "manually" separate/spread them? I'm determined to be able to have the viewers of my upcoming HD videos to hear the same amazing Kronos combo quality through their headphones, that I am hearing through my headphones when I play/rehearse and use the keyboard's standard 1/8" out, for instance. I'm a stereo-sound fiend, and don't want to go through all of the production work of professional video capture if the keyboard sound reproduction isn't 1st class. Any thoughts? As in, can you please check my math? Thank you, sir. Ron

@seiph80

6 жыл бұрын

Did you get the issue resolved? I know it's been 2 years since your post and nobody has answered you.

I can't believe you didn't mention phasing issues within the keyboard itself. Most digital pianos & synths, most notably the Yamaha Motif series, have sounds that turn to kaka in mono.

@josesati4950

6 жыл бұрын

Could you please explain it a little better? I own a Yamaha MOXF, that have the same sound of MOTIF XF. What kind of problem can I expect playing mono?

@marcosquito

5 жыл бұрын

Yes I have the same problem : only in stereo grand piano songs, if you use the "L/mono" output it causes phase issue in central notes like G3 (central G) - it kind of mute the harmonics, song became trash. Other songs like Rhodes Hammond are already in mono and don't have problems. I wonder if there's another better solution, but mine was to use only the Right output.

great video sir Quick question when you say 1/4 inch (the dual 1/4 cable you showed) are they both TRS or both TS or one TS one TRS?

@davidaghadomusic

6 жыл бұрын

anyone else know ??

@seiph80

6 жыл бұрын

David Aghado I use two separate cables, one for the left and one for the right, TS cables each.

Thank you.

@PianoManChuck

11 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Hey, Chuck, just stumbled upon your channel today. You did a good job of explaining this. I have one question though still unanswered: is it possible to send stereo (from your piano L & R out) in to a single instrument/line input on an audio interface, or is it necessary to send both the L & R from the DP to two separate line inputs on the Audio interface? When you consider that a stereo headphone jack takes a stereo out through a _single_ jack, and then splits that off into L & R phones, it would seem to me that it must be possible likewise to have an inversion of this, where two stereo outputs (L & R) are combined to a single stereo TRS input e.g. for an audio interface. Is this not the case? or is there no such thing as a single stereo input that can take both channels and split them off accordingly? Would be very appreciative if you can provide and answer to this. P.S. Subscribed.

@teunpolderman1104

3 жыл бұрын

great question! Have wondered the same thing, did you happen to stumble upon an answer in the last year by chance?

@olirpinho

2 жыл бұрын

@@teunpolderman1104 I can aswer u a year later, no, it's not possible.

Do I understand you correctly? In my Software DAW I can collapse the stereo sound into mono out put and then let that sound travel out though the stereo speakers? Do I understand you correctly?

A stereo panning patch, such as Rhodes sounds frequently used by Stevie Wonder, will not be reproduced when connected in mono. In fact, the panning of the signal will be canceled. The only viable substitute, is to apply tremolo, instead of panning. One of my boards is a Studiologic Numa Compact 2. It only has a left and right channel output. It has no provision for "Left/Mono". This is a poor design IMHO, for which I must use a mixer to sum the two channels to obtain a mono signal. Attempting to sum the left and right channel out, simply by "Y"ing them together will produce an annoying phasing effect and the resulting sound will be anemic.

@PianoManChuck

13 күн бұрын

Almost all keyboards are designed with 1/4" TS Left and 1/4" TS Right jacks where if you only plug in the Left cable, it summarizes the signal to mono. Both L & R cables plugged in will keep it at stereo.

Has anyone told you that you resemble Gene Wilder a bit? Also, thanks for the video.

@PianoManChuck

8 жыл бұрын

+Zachary Dufrene - I've had that, John Lennon, and others!

@davidgooglestuff9436

8 жыл бұрын

or randy newman without glasses. by the way, piano man, thanks for the info. this is an issue we had last night at a gig with our keyboardist.