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You have four options that do just what you might think. If you are hanging out in the yellow or red, turn down the input (I also unlink the input and output knobs so I can make independent changes). A couple tips, there is a level light, make sure itвЂ™s not getting too hot. IвЂ™m still dialing this in for my own use but I started with the Piano preset and after making a few changes I think I really like where itвЂ™s at. While the graphical interface is visually pleasing, IвЂ™m guessing that you donвЂ™t use plugins just because they look cool.

Worth your time if youвЂ™re interested in how this works. The link I attached to the title takes you to the video that Andrew Scheps put together talking about the plugin he helped create. I used to use a vitamin here but wanted something a bit easier to dial in quickly and found that with Scheps Parallel Particles. Next is a new plugin I recently picked up to give a bit of variety to my sonic enhancement lineup. It would be easy to just slam the piano into this compressor but a good thing to remember is that when the player is playing things like pads and such behind speech, this plugin should be doing nothing and the be doing something when the band is playing with it (good rule of thumb for most compressors). The green and purple bands are just functioning as basic compression. This layout brings out the bottom of the piano and helps it have a bit more attack when necessary. I use an altered form of the Piano B preset.

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I use the board EQ to make the piano sound good when itвЂ™s just the piano and then use the C6 to help it out a bit when itвЂ™s being played with a full band. In order for the characteristics of the sound to translate well to being amplified I have always felt that dynamic EQ is necessary a bit for pianos. The first thing I do with the piano is drop in a C6. They strike a good balance between keeping it simple and processing the gold out of each input. However, having said that, this layout of plugins is working very well for me. My tastes and needs change quite a bit with the piano and we occasionally try different samples in mainstage so these, like the rest of my posts, are very much just suggestions. Lastly, I want to say that these inputs, like my acoustic input, are pretty fluid. To help shorten this post a bit IвЂ™m going to go through and show what I do for the piano input and then discuss how I handle the rest of the inputs because they are usually just variations on the piano channel. While this seems like a lot to manage but it ensures that we can fully manipulate each input as we like and not have to get to crazy in the automation wing when it comes to different songs and sounds. We run 5 stereo outputs to our consoles that are as follows: piano, pad, organ, synth, and electric piano. Because I have that hooked up to dante I have several outputs at work with which I can process differently. We run a full mainstage rig where I work like so many churches and studios.

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Welcome back to our first Waves Multirack Series! This is week 6 of the series where IвЂ™m going to talk through what I am currently using on my piano and keys inputs.

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