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[Artcutech]

Im helping somebody out with a live set up who uses a kronos and had a couple questions on what would be the best direction in achieving the best sound

MBP will be running into Kronos over usb and playing the instrumental versions of the songs being triggered in session mode in Ableton, sound card in/out set to the Kronos on the MBP, going to be using a shure KSM8 dynamic mic as well as an electric acoustic guitar. I’m not sure what the specifics are at the moment as what everything will be run into, will know soon but trying to get a jump start and wanted to know if it’s a better idea to run the mic and guitar separately into whatever everything going into if possible, I think it might be a mixing board but it might not. So the jist of my question would be does running everything into the kronos, mic guitar, audio from Ableton and then left and right out into the main system(don’t know what it is yet) give a kind of chokey or muffled sound? Should I be routing the mic and guitar out of the assignable outputs(haven’t looked into this in depth but I think the Kronos has the option of assigning inputs to a couple outputs)as opposed to everything out of the main? Or, if it is possible to run everything separately into their own inputs into the main system, this would be the ideal method? just use the Kronos for the tracks coming from the MBP and whatever else with local control for use of Kronos internal sound during set and left and right main out to the source, and the mic and guitar going into the source separately?

I really like the sound the Kronos gives off and not sure if a standard mixing board(depending if there’s an engineer treating and dressing up the inputs) or whatever being used would give a stale/dry sound to the mic and guitar as whenever we hook everything into the Kronos stuff sounds really warm and nice

So basically is it a safe bet to run everything into the kronos and left and right outputs into the main system and achieve a great sound? Or everything in and out of their own assignable outs on the Kronos? Like guitar and mic out of their own assignable out and Ableton Kronos out of the main l/r and everything into the source system from there? ofcourse the mic and guitar will be eq’d on the inputs eq on the Kronos if that’s what we end up doing.

I’m sure my post is full of variables and it all depends what we’re runnig into, will find out more shortly and any advice is greatly appreciated

[CharlesFerraro]

[Artcutech]

Wow Charles, thank you so much!

Sorry for being redundant, I guess my whole mix-down mindset(I know this doesn’t make sense haha) kind of took over as having everything on its own track and treating it individually, but everything would still would be treated individually just summed down to a stereo mix earlier, my lack of experience in setting up stuff live made me wonder if there was some benefit to having all inputs individual at the last step but thanks for clearing that up, it really means a lot to me, the person I’m helping and myself really like the sound the Kronos gives off + effects when runnig through the inputs, and running everything through it and using the L/R main out makes things extremely simple

[CharlesFerraro]

You know... there is one scenario where routing the guitar and mic direct could be better. And that is if you're going into a desk with ridiculously clean preamps. I've noticed that RME preamps are friggin' crystal clear where the noise floor on those systems is lower than the usual. They boast about a greater dynamic range as a selling point and boy does it show. The Fireface 800 definitely had the cleanest inputs of any piece of audio gear I've ever used. So much so that I kindof regret selling it. But downsizing to an Apollo Twin USB has been really nice and is a lot more convenient for my needs these days.

All that said pretty much everyone else has the same quality/dynamic range for their inputs. You only really need that kind of extreme quality if you're recording like... whispering from across the room or something lol. And even then the rest of your signal chain has to be immaculate as well as the space being acoustically treated.

Back to your point though, yeah you're totally fine with having the Kronos do the work. In fact I think it's really cool that you'll be maximizing the keyboard's utility like that.
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