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Originally Posted by RobAnderson  How big is the hall?
What sort of materials are present in the room?
How far from the back wall was the piano?
Were you over the height of the lid? |
Well, to answer a bunch of questions. I will save a thousand words with a photo. I don't have a good photo of the configuration closer up. Sorry about the bad quality. It was just a handheld, lowlight snapshot with a cheap camera.
My notes say the mic were 238cm high from stage, 108cm to front leg, 232 to back leg. I tried spacings of 36cm, 40, 46, 50cm. I don't know precisely how far to the side/rear walls. The mic height was just barely below the plane of the lid, to eliminate possible lid reflections.
On another day I generally kept a 36cm spacing, and moved the mics to a dozen different positions, moved the piano around the stage, angled it off, etc.
I have been very suspicious of the side wall reflections. You can see they are angled, but flat in the lower part. I played with using choir shells to deflect the side wall reflections, but either I didn't have a large enough panel (6ft) for the wavelength, or it wasn't the issue.