u/Emergency_Detail_353

Digital piano connected to a 2i2 and the 2i2 to Pixel 6a phone.

When using headphones into the 2i2, the sounds pretty much 1:1 as if the headphones were plugged into the piano jack itself.

But when direct recording to my phone, the sound is not as clean, even though its clean on the headphones as I'm recording it.

Wondering if this is normal? Why is the 2i2 outputting different quality audio between headphones and usb? I thought they would be from the same source?

Anything I can I do to fix this and have clean sound recordings?