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Bretteris ...welcome to the forum! We all eagerly await some stage settings from you as you "program the crap out of this beast"!!!

Thanks Dave....wonderful response!

Thanks Scott....wonderful reply!

Joe...do you run stereo or mono into that di box?

Thanks Joe....this is the kind of input I'm looking for!

I play in a band that has issues with sound setup...and I am looking for professional advice as how to properly configure everything.

We have two mic'd singers out front, two electric guitars and a bass guitar (all 3 with mics to sing back up), myself on keyboard (with mic for my sax and harmonica), & a drummer (with bass drum running through a sub woofer). All the guitars and keyboard have their own amplifiers, and all the amps and mics run into our 16 channel mixer, then out into two mains, way up front. Only the singers use monitors. Shouldn't everybody use monitors?

Our main problem is that as a performance goes on through the night, everyone keeps turning up their instruments/amplifiers, battling each other to hear/be heard, since there is no sound person running the mixer board after we do our initial sound check, and because (i believe) the instrumentalists don't have monitors. The result is one big, loud, unbalanced mess at the end of the night.

I hear my px5s through MY Motion Sound amp beside me, but obviously it's not what the crowd hears, so who knows when/if I'm balanced with everyone or not.

So, let me ask questions numerically...

1) shouldn't everyone have/share monitors?

2) should I run signal:

A)from my keyboard directly to the mixer, then back to me, mixed with everybody's sound through my own monitor/amp?

Or from my keyboard into my amp first, then out to the mixer & back to me, via a separate monitor?

C) or from my keyboard into my amp, then out to the mixer and then just out to the mains?

I guess I'm asking if I should just hear myself through a monitor or all of the band sound through the monitor, as one cumulative mixed and balanced sound?

(I really wish I had built in speakers on the px5s like the privia 350 instead of a never used battery compartment...then I could hear myself before I sent the signal away!)

3) how would a space station v3 fit into the setup scheme here?

4) how do stereo powered speakers for the keyboard fit into the scheme?

I am confused here as you can see...but I've never been in a band before, and I am finding it a bit "unenjoyable" to not be able to hear well at our performances, compared to at our practices where we just use amps, no mixer and no monitors...

I trust the insight from all of the wonderfully talented folks here at this forum...so I eagerly await your answers.

I would love to see a video(if someone would be kind enough to make) of creating a wav file in garage band on an iPad and then saving it to usb, and then using it in px5s to play along with...not savvy in this area and I feel like I would majority screw something up....even a simple demonstration video would be helpful

What about the center point space station v3???

"Shaneinated" is a great stage setting to upload at the Casio music forum for this sound....

Just posted this stage setting to the forum....tricky to get strings in there correctly...debated splitting keyboard in half (strings/rhodes) then just decided to throw strings on pedal 2 for when needed...perhaps someone would prefer the strings on a slider?...if so, be my guest and reconfigure. Hope you like it....

Thought about that.....I'll give it a try....

Lee...maybe you can whip something up on the px5s with all of your experience programming the last few months....and then upload the stage settings to the forum....?

Thanks man!

I'll keep searching

I searched and searched but couldn't find that thread...if you can find it, maybe make a comment on it and bring it to the top of the thread line......????

Will do...thanks...and welcome back!

Well, I know some folks on the forum have asked me to create more stage settings for Chicago tunes...I wonder if you could recreate their horn sounds on the px-5s...I have tried and failed miserably...

Maybe some thing like the "tower of power" sound... something that pops, ya knows?

Yes, Dave...I,too, would be very interested in good brass/sax stage settings that really sizzle! I'm working on my own right now, but it's not quite right...

And any improvements to (Hammond) 6/9 bar organ stage settings would be very warmly recieved, I'm sure...

Thanks,

DARIN MCNABB

Bad Axe, MI

B.J.Love, please expand about the space station v3...I read the Sweetwater reviews, and it seems too good to be true... is it really that much better than everything else????

Bootsy...Welcome to the forum!

The sequence you need to follow is:

Edit > stage setting > common edit > pedal 1 (or 2) > pedal target > CC64 Hold > min/max value...000/127. Be sure to change the pedal to "momentary" instead of "toggle" , & you should be good to go!!!

Are you running one or two k10's?

I am just curious about what speaker/monitor/amp setup everybody uses for live performance situations with their px-5s...(not interested in your other keyboards...just how you get your px sound out to the crowd)

Currently, I am using a Motion Sound amp that I really don't care for and may sell...thinking about running stereo sound if I can figure out what to buy...suggestions are very welcomed!

Hey....can't wait too hear your stuff!!

I have been toying with this rotary effect since I started this thread, and I have made progress....it's sufficient for what I need now

Very good to know...Thanks