solo piano record with a digital piano(?!?)

[pietrogirardi]

Yes. I did it this way because it's jazz, and I preferred to spend dozens of hours at home finding the best take, instead of hurrying in a studio and have a great sounding piano but "not completely satisfying" solos.

So I recorded the stuff in cubase (1000 ppq), then went to the mastering studio with cubase files and the digital (Yamaha CP300). We passed it through pro-tools and some analog stuff, and that's the result:

MySpace.com - Pietro Girardi - Venezia, Venezia - Jazz / Minimalist / Acoustic - www.myspace.com/pietrogirardi

CD Baby: PIETRO GIRARDI: Minimal

I still don't understand if this is a good job or a bad one....

Thanks,
Pietro

[Beyersound]

Hi Pietro,
Great playing on those tunes! My critique of the recording is that the sample sounds like it was recorded with no close miking, from back in the room. Many of those samples also have a ton of room already added to them, they need to be dried up in the patch. I prefer to use a close mic only sample and add my favorite reverb/room sound to taste. Hope this helps. Cheers, Michael

[pietrogirardi]

Originally Posted by Beyersound

Hi Pietro,
Great playing on those tunes! My critique of the recording is that the sample sounds like it was recorded with no close miking, from back in the room. Many of those samples also have a ton of room already added to them, they need to be dried up in the patch. I prefer to use a close mic only sample and add my favorite reverb/room sound to taste. Hope this helps. Cheers, Michael

Thanks for your opinion. I agree, but I assure you that the recording was made with no reverb at all, infact after conversion it sounded absolutely dry and lifeless.

Then, I 've chosen to put a small-room reverb (from a lexicon 960, don't remember the preset name) because these tunes contain lots of harmonic changes and sometimes these happen really fast, so I didn't want to mud it with long tail rev's.

And drying it more than this would have resulted in more cold and digital sounding piano...

Best wishes,
Pietro

[videoteque]

In tutta Venezia non hai trovato un pianoforte vero???

Managgia!!!!! La musica è propio bella!!!

[pietrogirardi]

Grazie!

(ti rispondo in inglese) sadly in Venice, like in any other part of the world, a very good, well tuned, well miked and well recorded piano COSTS! And I did more than 20 takes for each song... It would have been far too expensive for me.

Thanks again,
Pietro