You hear yourself twice

You hear yourself twice, the edge of the note blurs, or two copies sit slightly apart. Usually two return paths are both on. Turn one of them off.

Combinations that do this

• Self-mix is on, and Direct Monitor on the audio interface is also on
• Self-mix is on, and the raw sound is also coming from an amp or an electronic piano’s speaker
• Self-mix is on, and you are also hearing the room because the headphones sit loosely (horn or voice)

In each case, your sound that took a round trip through the computer and your sound that did not are both playing. They are slightly apart, so you hear a double.

Fix it

Use one path.

• If the delay does not bother you, turn Direct Monitor off on the box and leave Self-mix on. You set the size with Return level, and you can use Return reverb
• If the delay does bother you, turn Self-mix off in Mix and use only the box’s return (the key is X). Turning it off does not change how the band responds

If the piano sounds doubled

That is the accompaniment, not your own sound. When you play a keyboard, Feelism’s piano and your piano are both taking the same chair.

• Clear Piano under Settings → Band (Feelism’s piano stops)
• Or set Piano in Mix to 0

The piano either comps or answers. It does not do both at once (Fills).

Worth remembering

The app does not lay a sample tone on top of the sound it picked up from the audio input. What comes back is your raw sound. So “I play saxophone and a sampled saxophone also plays” does not happen. If you hear a different tone stacked on yours, that is a MIDI keyboard or the on-screen keyboard (set Keys in Mix to 0 and it goes away).

Delay is covered in Late, hard to play. Adjusting the return is in Self-mix and latency.