| Lately I've been using a Royer SF12 on the piano - sounds amazing (needs no corrective EQ wherever you put it - no 'weird resonant close miced piano sound').
As for the bass, put, I use a MKH80 on either hypercardioid or figure of eight, and make sure the null is towards the drum.
This works for me in a fairly small and very live room, so it should be OK in a bigger room that is quite dry. You can always add a gobo between bass&drum.
Drum : MS overhead, sometimes in front of the kit, pointing towards the BD.
THE problem with the Bosendorfer is that this thing is actually way too big to close mic. I prefer to keep the mics a bit further away, but then the drums creep in of course.
If you can make sure the bleed on all tracks sounds OK (and the drum mic also has more or less as much bleed of the piano) and doesn't disturb the stereo image (!) the sound will be OK.
Make the musicians adapt to playing without monitoring - they will make their own balance (but never right away)
I record through a Gracedesign 801R, always without compression. |