Comments on: Recording a piano conterto http://www.prosoundblog.com/2006/01/18/recording-a-piano-conterto/ Rants of a professional drummer and recording engineer. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:40:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: projekt7 http://www.prosoundblog.com/2006/01/18/recording-a-piano-conterto/comment-page-1/#comment-129 projekt7 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 02:11:43 +0000 http://prosoundblog.com/?p=214#comment-129 I just recorded a Jazz Trio and I used your same setup with the piano except I used 2 Neumann TLM 103's and it sounded great, it was the first time I used that mic setup on the piano and that is the way I am always going to do it. The piano sounded so warm that when I mixed it I used no EQ or other processing. I was taught many years ago to place the mics over the sound holes and never experimented, I wish I had cause like I said it sounded great (the Neumanns helped alot too)....Thanx for the Tip.... I just recorded a Jazz Trio and I used your same setup with the piano except I used 2 Neumann TLM 103′s and it sounded great, it was the first time I used that mic setup on the piano and that is the way I am always going to do it. The piano sounded so warm that when I mixed it I used no EQ or other processing. I was taught many years ago to place the mics over the sound holes and never experimented, I wish I had cause like I said it sounded great (the Neumanns helped alot too)….Thanx for the Tip….

]]> By: nickbenn http://www.prosoundblog.com/2006/01/18/recording-a-piano-conterto/comment-page-1/#comment-123 nickbenn Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:47:46 +0000 http://prosoundblog.com/?p=214#comment-123 Wow - impressive that you called it that dead-on, without a sound check. My niece did her senior voice recital at Weber State in 2004, and the recordings from that sucked ass: the levels were ridiculously low (even though they did a run-through on stage the day before, with the sound tech guys there); basically, it sounded like they had one setup (all the way from mics used & placement, to preamp gain, and levels recorded to ADAT) that they used for everything, no matter what sort of performance was taking place. The result (on which Hustickerdu and I have been performing audio surgery, as we get the time) has a crazy noise floor, and a huge spike at around 1Khz in the audio spectrum. The AT4050 is such a sweet microphone; one of these days I need to pick up a second one. Wow – impressive that you called it that dead-on, without a sound check. My niece did her senior voice recital at Weber State in 2004, and the recordings from that sucked ass: the levels were ridiculously low (even though they did a run-through on stage the day before, with the sound tech guys there); basically, it sounded like they had one setup (all the way from mics used & placement, to preamp gain, and levels recorded to ADAT) that they used for everything, no matter what sort of performance was taking place. The result (on which Hustickerdu and I have been performing audio surgery, as we get the time) has a crazy noise floor, and a huge spike at around 1Khz in the audio spectrum.

The AT4050 is such a sweet microphone; one of these days I need to pick up a second one.

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