High Pass Filter

[Briggy]

I’m looking for some opinions here. My band is self contained, however we do the odd gig with in house rigs and a sound guy. When managing our own sound, I usually throw a high pass filter on my keys (6 piece band). However, there are moments with solo piano such as intros and I find it makes the piano sound a little weak at times.

My idea was to instead have a high pass filter pedal/switch so I could turn it off for these moments. The potential issues I for see are:

1. A sound guy would hate this, as if he applied a HPF it makes my pedal irrelevant anyway

2. I run a stereo signal for both keyboards combined (they both go stereo into my mixer and I send a single stereo feed to the desk). I would need a pedal that can manage the stereo signal and I can find anything of the sort.

Is this something I am overthinking, is it something any of you have found a pain point?

 

[ca.88fingers]

Look at a guitar multi fx pedal. I use a Boss GT1000, that I use for:
- One stereo input, one mono input (could be 3 mono inputs if I wanted)
- HPF, LPF on a footswitch for solo piano (although it rarely makes too much of a difference if FoH already has you HPFed)
- Compression (FoH will thank you)
- Volume pedal
- Wah, etc. if I want - whatever guitar FX you want to add - and probably better reverb/delay options than what you have on your KBs
- MIDI patch changes, up to 4 on each preset
- MIDI control of 2 sustain pedals, and mod wheel (Leslie on/off)
- Balanced XLR stereo outs - DI box built-in, with separate EQ, to FoH
- Unbalanced 1/4" outs for stage monitors, with separate EQ and level control
- Ground Lift options
- And many more options

I know the Line 6 stuff also does all of this, or most of it. Others like the Quad Cortex don't. YMMV

Cheers