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If you canвЂ™t afford a new audio interface, or a multi-channel DI, then make an occasion to work with your mix engineer before the sound check/rehearsal, to run through each of your presets to balance and pan the sounds in a way that makes sense in the mix. Pan them wide, slather on the modulation and reverb. If it only sounds right in stereo then add another outputвЂ¦ If the sound needs to pop in the mix put it here.

Let the mix engineer choose hot wet they need to be to sit properly in the mix. Key your pianos dry, unless the sound calls for a lot of reverb. You will also want to buy a multi-channel DI to simplify the setup. To get this done, you may need to buy an audio interface with additional outputs. Run your big synths and hooks in mono or stereo but on their own pair. Run your pads in stereo, so the engineer can spread them out wide, and carve a hole in the middle for the vocal. That allows the mix engineer to pan them in a way that makes sense in the context of the guitars and other upfront sounds. Sounds such as pianos and organs work best in mono. Some of the stems should be mono, some can be stereo. Segment your keyboard sounds into вЂњstemsвЂќ which gives you the opportunity to group similar sounds together in a way that will make sense in the mix. Your pads will occur louder than you intended, and your synths and punchy sounds will be lost in the mix unless the engineer knows the song well enough to push your channels at the right time. The sum effect of this approach is that much of the dynamic of your performance isВ lost. Many mix engineers are accustomed to putting a big old compressor or limiter across the keyboard pair to limit the possibility of level surprises, and they will often roll off some of your bass, and cut some of the frequencies that may interfere with the vocal.

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Plus your gorgeous stereo sounds take up so much harmonic space that they are challenged to fit you into their tight mix. With everything presented on a single stereo pair, the FOH mix engineer has no idea what kinds of sounds youвЂ™re going to produce, or at what level to expect them.

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Depending on the sound a mono, panned patch may be the best approach. Stereo keyboard patches sound great but they are not always the right approach for the mix. By default every layer in that patch is presented in stereo and the keyboardist will balanced each sound as best they can outside of the context of the whole mix. To cover all the different sounds demanded by the song, we build a patch/multi and create layers that we can blend or switch between. For others, a workstation style keyboard from Yamaha, Korg or Roland will usually get you pretty close.

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For many, AppleвЂ™s MainStage software is the preferred approach to get this done. In modern worship settings the keyboardist has toВ cover a wide range of sounds, from Pianos, to Pads to Synths and Samples.

In this articleВ weвЂ™re going to consider 2 ways the keyboardists in the room can help the FOH mix engineer achieving a coherent, clean and consistent mix, which in turn will contribute to the perception that things have been turned down a smidgeвЂ¦.

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