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Topic: speaker modelling with yamaha nu1

I am using pianoteq together with an upright hybrid piano nu1 and I do use the nu1 internal speakers.
They sound great and with pianoteq I now also have a complementary sound of an upright but with its own character.

However the modelling of speakers inside the NU1 by the microphone placement still puzzles me. Is there a canonical way do to that?
Any experiences to do that correctly? Are there other setttings of importance when playing through a digital pianos internal speakers

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Re: speaker modelling with yamaha nu1

I am now using the U4 instrument as it matches the Yamaha NU1 closest. It is really amazing the kind of realism you get when combining the NU1 with U4. Acoustic, tactile impression and optics is like a >10 k€ upright.

Anyway I tried further playing around with the microphone placment, but I did not find a hearable difference when moving the the microphones into our outside the cabinet of the U4 model. They were always very close to the nominal position as in the preset "U4 player closed". So now I just leave them in the nominal position, but I am still curious if they should be inside (like the NU1 speakers) or outside the U4 cabinet...

It is absolutely necessary to deactivate reverb and delay, but that's somehow obvious when using the internal speakers of the NU1