Topic: My headphones blinded me...
Hey all,
been using and enjoying PTq for a while now, but have always used headphones (I owe Sony MDR 7506 which are quite good one's).
I have recorded a few music pieces, classical style, and wanted to do a CD out of it... So here I am, burning a draft CD and playing it on different audio devices, to hear what people would hear... And from here, disaster...
On my Hifi (not so bad quality, but quite old), it sounds just really bad: sound is not clear at all, reverb just kills everything (even with the lowest reverb setup), low frequencies are not really deep but take all the "sound space"...
Tried it in my car, to see the damage... Awful, my hears couldnt stand all the resonance, nearly crashed my car...
Tried it on my middle-end mp3 player with middle-end headphones... Not so bad that on speakers, but again not enjoyable, too hard on the hears...
Basically, I use K1 close mic preset, and I lower the reverb.
I tried to play with mic positions (just keeping 2 mics for instance), with keyboard velocity curve, with EQ, and I tried with no reverb at all... But overall, when played on speakers, I feel the sound is really too rich, with way too much vibration, and definitely not enjoyable for the listener.
I tried with C3 and M3, and it was way worse.
To make sure my Hifi was not out of order, I played a few CD's of Schumann and Chopin, both recorded live and in studio, and they sounded excellent! And so my feeling was that the Pianoteq sound (or anyway what I came up with) is really miles apart from that wonderful piano sound with which Brendel and Kissin make my (our) heart beat...
So here I am, quite lost... Have you guys felt such disappointment when playing it on speakers? Do you use completely different presets than with headphones? What am I missing here?
Thanks for your feedback
Fab