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Originally Posted by Brad McGowan  Bill,
Can you describe your "unique placement" a little more? I'm very curious. The clips sound great!
I like mics 1 and 2 the best in clip 1. The low end is very powerful and commanding in mic 2 but I think I like the midrange in #1 better. A combination of those two mics would probably sound awesome. I did not care for mic 3 as much since it seemed weak in the lower registers, but it was still a nice sound. |
Brad
Brad - good comments. I'm not going to say much more until more people have a chance to chime in. I will say that using both mics 1 & 2 in combination wouldn't really work for me due to phase considerations. With both of mics being "inside" the piano and so close (but not perfect) and with the harmonic complexity of the piano and with sound bouncing around all over and the added complication of both mics being Fig8..... It might be possible, but I prefered using only one set of mics.
I'll try to describe the placement, but a picture is worth a thousand words, and I've already said more than a thousand.
Mic sets 1 & 2 (they are as close together with ribbons lined up as best as I could get them) were - as I said earlier - "inside" the piano. The "L" mic is located towards the keys, about 10" inwards towards the middle of the piano from the hammers firing
not towards the strings, but towards the L/R outside edges of the piano. Those mics were about 10" off the strings. The second set of mics, "R", were down towards the end of the piano, maybe 18-24" from the end about midway L to R and also about 10" off the strings. BUT
this mic was firing towards the strings and towards the lid. It's kind of like a blumlein setup where the mics are firing 90 degrees from one another, but unlike a blumlein setup, they are three feet apart at least and turned. Hope that makes sense. If not, it will when I post a picture later.
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