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Keyboard Amplifier Reviews – Introducing the Best Keyboard Amplifiers
Looking for a Keyboard Amplifier? Find reviews of the best keyboard amplifiers here. Things to look for include sound reproduction, portability, and power.
All set to perform in public? Are you part of a band and have opportunities in hand to do a gig?
Be it for the actual stage performance or for your warm-up sessions, you will need to get yourself a good keyboard amp if you really want to make a huge impact.
You need a powerful as well as a portable amplifier that is capable of faithful sound reproduction.
Anything else is good only for home or for a very small space.
Home System Speakers
Most of the keyboards have built-in amps and speakers and the sound produced depends on this amplifier.
For your personal use, the sound produced by the keyboard speakers is decent enough but you can make it sound lot better by giving it external amplification.
One easy way of doing this without going in for the keyboard amplifiers is to directly connect the keyboard to your home sound system; to one of its Aux inputs.
Even a not so expensive keyboard sounds really good when connected to your home system.
Though the home system is not recommended for public performance, you can still use it if you are going to play in a small hall and if the audience consists of your friends and relatives.
They are going to like you anyways!
Even for your school function, you can give the output of your keyboard to the microphones and play it through the normal speakers.
A Keyboard Amplifier is meant for serious stage players!
If you are serious about playing in public, if you want to play for a band or a gig, you will need to go in for Keyboard combo amplifiers to give that extra power to your keyboards.
When you decide to go in for external keyboard amps make sure that you buy only dedicated keyboard combos and nothing else.
Characteristics of a Keyboard Amplifier
Keyboard amplifiers are used to amplify a variety of digital piano keyboard instruments, including synths, arrangers, digital and electric pianos.
Since keyboard instruments cater to a wide frequency range, from very low bass notes to extremely high pitches, you will find a large woofer speaker (to handle the low bass notes) and a horn or tweeter (for the high notes) as part of your Keyboard amplifier.
You may get guitar amps or some other amps from your friends or other sources for dirt cheap prices but stay away from them. The frequency range of keyboard sounds is much greater than guitar so you'll need a full-spectrum frequency range to reproduce your sound accurately. This automatically rules-out using a guitar amplifier.
Of course, you can have a look at used Keyboard amplifiers but make sure you thoroughly test its output before you make any buying decision.
In terms of output, the more watts an amp will produce the louder you can play without distorting. Look for combo amps with at least 60 watts power; this will give you a decent output.
Keyboard Amplifier – Inputs & Outputs
If you wish to connect to a common house mixer, which puts your sound in the mains and the monitors, you can choose a smaller keyboard amp that has line outputs.
You also get Keyboard amplifiers that have a simple onboard mixer with multiple inputs, so that you can connect multiple digital keyboards to the Keyboard amplifier and control their tone and level.