Need advice for piano with female voice

[Audiop]

Hi!

Seems like I have a small job coming up. Female operatic singer backed up by grand piano. A couple of arias I've been told. The recording will take place in a church of which i have no information about (yet).

The material will end up on a demo CD for the singer.

How would you set up the performers and mics?

I was thinking omni main pair with a cardio spot for voice hoping the acoustics is fine.

Or.. cards/subcards ORTF/NOS for piano with cardio spot for voice and two pairs of spaced omnis at a distance for ambience.

Going relatively close with directional mics would give me better freedom of church ambience vs. added reverb in post if acoustics is poor.

I have eight channels total with:

2xQTC1
2xMKH8020
2xMKH8040
2xCM3

Thanks in advance!


/Peter

[d_fu]

How's that CM3? I'm curious...

With what you've got, I'd probably go for 8020 main, and 8040 on piano, CM3 on voice - or vice versa... Not sure I'd trust the QTC in terms of self noise. Could try them as spots, too...


Daniel

[Audiop]

I feel the CM3's is right up there with Sennheisers and EW's, clean and neutral which makes them go well with most sources.

Me and a friend compared CM3 against 8040 recently.. on 12str guitar and some shakers + triangles and stuff and in my slightly warm sounding livingroom we prefered CM3.

I did another "shootout" some time ago and then I prefered 8040. Positioning of the mics can make more of a difference than the mics themselfs sometimes it seems.

Thanks for your suggestions Daniel, I'll give it some thought. thumbsup


/Peter

[d_fu]

Not that I really needed more microphones, but it would be interesting to hear some of the CM3.

If you don't have audio clips of your shootout, maybe you could hold both pairs up to the piano during your upcoming job?


Daniel