[henryrobinett]

I have a session this weekend I'm also playing on. Some musicians I play with a great respect. I play with and record the pianist all the time in our group, but this is the drummers date and his first really as a leader and perhaps his last, as he's getting up there. But still a great player, so I want this to be good. Due to limited access to great pianos and budget we're recording this in a large classroom at one of the colleges - a great piano - 9' grand. Don't recall the brand. I'm pretty sure it's not a Bosendorfer.

Normally for our live gigs I put two mics up - AT4050s, about 5-6 " above the strings/hammers, bass and treble. I was thinking also of putting something under the piano. I haven't done this before. I also used to put a condensor in the curve of the piano inside for three mics, but I never ended up using it.

We're going to be amending the trio on some tunes by myself on guitar, a Trombonist (I'll use an AEA R84 or Royer 121) and a singer on one tune. I'm not going to beat myself up over isolation.

Upright bass I was going to try two mics plus a DI - Peluso 22 251 on the fingers on the neck and the Peluso 22 47 or a Baby Bottle at the bridge and a Millennia TD-1 DI.

What suggestions to folks here like for mic'ing pianos? This IS a remote btw!