| recording piano with live jazz group
I've been recording my band's live shows. This group plays fairly infrequently - once or twice every 4-6 weeks or so. We have one coming up this weekend. We always have an acoustic piano as one our our main instruments. It's a jazz group, so it doesn't reach the heights of rock volume but it's not soft dinner jazz either. The last two times I used 2 AT4050s in omni on the piano. I liked the sound. This time I'll use the AT4050s and augment them with a 3rd mic in the curve on some form. The FOH guy likes the Shure Beta91 and I think I'll just go with that.
Now to my question - The AT4050s pick up the entire drum kit and then some in omni. I can avoid the proximity effect this way but I'm not sure if I'm cutting my nose off to spite my face here. Since I'm playing I'm not going to have a lot of time to experiment. Any preferences or ideas between omni and cardiod or even HC in this situation? It's about a 9' grand. It may be just shy of that. Oh yeah, a pretty well known jazz pianist will be playing with us - Art Lande, so I want to do an especially good job.
The instrumentation is Piano, guitar (me), Tenor, Trumpet, Trombone, upright bass, Drums. I'm going to be using 17 tracks. I know, I know.
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