Piano recording in a bad room

jyc · 10th December 2009

Piano: Yamaha C5
Mics: Peluso P12 and BeesNeez James in M/S (Peluso center, BeesNeez Side)
Preamp: Avedis MA5
Converter: Lynx Aurora 8
Plugins Used: Crane Song Phoenix, MDW EQ, Oxford Dynamics, TL Space

Room is pretty bad (walls under 5 feet away from piano in all direction) but I had about 8 bass trap scattered around the piano.

What ya think?

grrrayson · 11th December 2009

I really tend to prefer a spaced pair for piano. Coincident pairs just don't usually capture an adequate sense of space to me. And M/S is the most coincident.

I've found that the room is really important for a piano. It's ironic how many good pianos are in mediocre rooms.

I wonder if you could've gone closer in this case–being too close is usually the downfall of many piano recordings in my experience, but since you know the room is bad and you were using M/S anyway, perhaps that would've given you more definition and minimized the blurriness of the room?

SANDS · 12th December 2009

"I wonder if you could've gone closer in this case–being too close is usually the downfall of many piano recordings in my experience, but since you know the room is bad and you were using M/S anyway, perhaps that would've given you more definition and minimized the blurriness of the room?[/QUOTE]"

I was wondering that too. Usually a bad thing, but in this case it might have been a better way to go.

Still it worked and you got it done with what you had.

12th December 2009	#3
SANDS Lives for gear Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: St. Louis, MO. USA Posts: 630	"I wonder if you could've gone closer in this case–being too close is usually the downfall of many piano recordings in my experience, but since you know the room is bad and you were using M/S anyway, perhaps that would've given you more definition and minimized the blurriness of the room?[/QUOTE]" I was wondering that too. Usually a bad thing, but in this case it might have been a better way to go. Still it worked and you got it done with what you had. __________________ It's just fun. "OH! There's air in my Hi Hat! I like that very much!

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11th December 2009	#2
grrrayson Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Chicago Posts: 548	I really tend to prefer a spaced pair for piano. Coincident pairs just don't usually capture an adequate sense of space to me. And M/S is the most coincident. I've found that the room is really important for a piano. It's ironic how many good pianos are in mediocre rooms. I wonder if you could've gone closer in this case–being too close is usually the downfall of many piano recordings in my experience, but since you know the room is bad and you were using M/S anyway, perhaps that would've given you more definition and minimized the blurriness of the room?