Thoughts on this piano trio recording?

[zaczac]

I've been going through the archives of the remote forum for some time now, which has been really helpful. That said, I feel I have so much more to learn, and I thought the best way would be to ask. For some reason, it won't let me upload this 3meg file to GS, so I'll have to link to myspace sorry. www.myspace.com/theneontrio

This is a rough mix of a piano trio I recorded recently. No overdubs and all in the same room. Drums were a long way away from piano and bass, and seperated by lots of makeshift baffling. It reduced bleed, but perhaps makes the remaining bleed too distant. I'm using a MacBook Pro with Digital Performer and the stock pres of my Firestudio (for now). The band were very keen on full dynamic range.

Drum Overheads - 2 x Beyer M160
Snare - M201
Kick - M88
I absolutely love my M160s as OH but the spill into the piano mics is less than flattering.

Bass - RE20 (not used) and DIed through a fishman platinum bass pre. I really wish I could have used the RE20 as it sounded great, but the bass just didn't have enough guts to compete with the drums. I ended up going the "big fretless" approach instead, which the band quite likes.

Piano - 2 x Rode NTKs as far from the strings as possible with the piano on short stick and covered with blankets. Not my favourite mics, but I like what they do to a piano.

Any thoughts on the mix? Or mic choice placement etc?

[d_fu]

Sound very nice to my ears,but I hear a lot of compression artefacts... Can you upload a 256 or 320k MP3 somewhere?

Daniel

[zaczac]

Thanks Daniel. After a bit more fiddling I've managed to upload a snippet of a different track onto gearslutz. Sorry it's so short, but at least it'll sound a little better than myspace.