Korgscrew
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Posted: July 06 2003, 00:29 |
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A good place to start would be here, where I gave an answer to a similar question (I believe I mostly covered upright pianos):
http://tubular.net/cgi-bin....;t=2130
The main thing is to get it sounding right before any equipment is set up - if the piano doesn't have the right sound, or the room's acoustics aren't right, things are going to be a whole lot more difficult.
After that, your ears are really the key to mic placement - you can go through all the various placements suggested in the above topic, but they're not gospel by any means, and you may find that while they work brilliantly for some pianos in certain kinds of room, they sound less than stunning in others. The best thing you can do is keep listening to the recordings, and to the instrument, and if things aren't sounding right, change one of the factors which you have control over (i.e. move the microphones, do things to alter the acoustic, change the playing style, etc) until it does sound right, or at least as good as you think you're going to get.
What microphones you use is, realistically, governed by what you can actually get. Anything that's reasonably sensitive, and with a good full frequency response is worth trying - something like the AKG C414 would be perfectly adequate.
I would think that the studio-owning friend is the best person to consult, as he/she ought to be able to assist with equipment choices (and either lend or help hire the necessary equipment) and with recording the piano parts.
I realise that much ground is still left uncovered - that shows how vast the topic can be! See what questions arise after reading that previous topic, and we'll take things from there...
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what's the best way to record my piano and my friend's one, in such a way as to obtain two faithful piano tracks which are suitable to a pop song [I know this is rather vauge, but... 
