Topic: Something obvious: Changing the Pedal curve
A new discovery for me, although it may be a common practice: I've been experimenting with changing the Pedal curve by creating a fairly large dip to the right for low pressures, much like a velocity curve for a keyboard with a fast action.
Apparently my (newish) Yamaha FC3 continuous sustain pedal was responding too easily. Not just a matter of starting too early, for which PT already compensates by having the lowest value set to around 25. My FC3 has instead just been sending too much "pedal down" for each stage of the pedal push, to my ears. Setting a deep curve keeps PT instruments "dryer" in a sense for longer, and seems to give me a wider variation in the degrees of dry to wet (no sustain to full sustain.) Huge difference in the sound of each instrument using this curve. (Which may mean, too, that I ride the pedal too much...)
Using the curve on the new Pleyel, for example, has really opened up new possibilities for the already great sound. But well worth trying on the C3, the M3, and all of the others.
