Kawai MP8 via SoundCraft Spirit M5

[Dk0r]

There is a severe degradation in sound quality when I monitor my kawai mp8 digital piano via the m5. For example my mp8 has a rhodes voice that uses some kind of stereo phasing to make a 'wah-wah' effect between the left and right channels. As soon as the mp8 is routed through the m5 such characteristics are lost.

I've tried both the m5's headphone and monitor outs and haveconnected the mp8 via xlr, 1/4" and 1/4" to rca to every input on the m5 with no change in result.

Any suggestions?

[WhiteStrat]

Originally Posted by Dk0r

There is a severe degradation in sound quality when I monitor my kawai mp8 digital piano via the m5. For example my mp8 has a rhodes voice that uses some kind of stereo phasing to make a 'wah-wah' effect between the left and right channels. As soon as the mp8 is routed through the m5 such characteristics are lost.

I've tried both the m5's headphone and monitor outs and haveconnected the mp8 via xlr, 1/4" and 1/4" to rca to every input on the m5 with no change in result.

Any suggestions?

I don't know know either of those pieces of gear specifically, but some basics (as in, you may have already thought of them) come to mind:

1) Are you going to the board in stereo--2 separate line outs from the keyboard for Left and Right into 2 separate channels of the board?

2) If yes, are those two channels on the board panned hard left and right?

If you don't do those two things, all stereo effects will get mushed up as the signal is summed back to mono... Not to mention that even basic stereo patches will lose the "lows keys on the left, high keys on the right" effect.

[Dk0r]

What about the headphone out?
Can I not monitor in stereo via the headphones?

[iqi616]

Did you try Whitestrat's suggestions?