Mr songwriter
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This is a $200 or so keyboard with some reasonably nice piano and organ voices on it that I'm trying to record with using my M-Audio 2496 soundcard, the only audio out it has is a "Phones/output" jack on the back, but despite trying many things (including putting it directly into the soundcard and putting it through a mixer (cheapo behringer one)) the recorded sound is nothing like as nice as the sound that comes out of it's built-in speakers, so, ridiculous as it might sound, I'm about to try and mike one of them up with an SM57 (the only mike I own) to see if that sounds any better. Can anyone suggest anything else I could try, or explain why the sound from the Phones/output socket is so crap (the manual doesn't say much about the Phones/output socket apart from "When connecting to a musical instrument amplifier, set the volume of the keyboard to a relatively low level and make output volume adjustments using the amplifier's controls")