Recording from the Yamaha PSR 970 keyboard
Posted: 24 Feb 2019 17:11
Roy (royofherts) has acquired a Yamaha PSR 970 keyboard (in addition to the Technics GA3 organ he has).
Roy has been using Audacity to record Beautiful Noise (a song by Neil Diamond) on his keyboard, and this has ended up as a Mono recording. Listening to a track in mono won't make any difference if you are listening through a single loudspeaker (like I have on my laptop!), but if listening through headphones it makes a world of difference. If your keyboard has any voices 'panned' to the left or to the right to get some 'music separation' then none of that would be heard in a mono recording. Strictly speaking, he has 'two track Mono' here ie. there is a left and a right channel, but they are the same.
If you listen to the below you can hear how this recording sounds. And underneath you can see the two waveforms, and the position of the green bars for the volumes of the left and right channels. When recording in Mono these green volume bars move across together.
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A DEMO of Roy playing Beautiful Noise on his PSR 970 keyboard (MP3)
Roy replied as follows:
Roy has been using Audacity to record Beautiful Noise (a song by Neil Diamond) on his keyboard, and this has ended up as a Mono recording. Listening to a track in mono won't make any difference if you are listening through a single loudspeaker (like I have on my laptop!), but if listening through headphones it makes a world of difference. If your keyboard has any voices 'panned' to the left or to the right to get some 'music separation' then none of that would be heard in a mono recording. Strictly speaking, he has 'two track Mono' here ie. there is a left and a right channel, but they are the same.
If you listen to the below you can hear how this recording sounds. And underneath you can see the two waveforms, and the position of the green bars for the volumes of the left and right channels. When recording in Mono these green volume bars move across together.
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A DEMO of Roy playing Beautiful Noise on his PSR 970 keyboard (MP3)
Roy replied as follows:
Hi Hugh I recorded it through a UCA222 straight to Audacity. Will have to listen to my others through headphones to see if they are the same .. do not know how to change to stereo anyway.