Hi All, I recently had the good fortune to work out a deal for a friend's grand to live at my studio in exchange for free studio time. It's been a while since I had the opportunity to record any real piano tracks and I intend to beef up my mic arsenal. It's a vintage 6' Knabe in a large, live room with cathedral ceiling. Let the opinions rip!
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My (theoretical) concern with LDC on piano is a loss of the high
My (theoretical) concern with LDC on piano is a loss of the highs. The piano was a huge range and harmonics well above that range.
Is this not the domain of the SDC instead?
Not necessarily...there are plenty of large-diaphragm condensers that go well above 20 kHz, and plenty of small-diaphragm ones that don't. All other things being equal, a small-diaphgragm microphone will be more accurate than a large-diaphgram microphone, but also more noisy. Since all other things are never equal, though, it's hard to make generalizations.
-Duardo
Tom, My first 4050 arrives tomorrow, will be ordering another so
Tom, My first 4050 arrives tomorrow, will be ordering another soon and look forward to trying that arrangement. The room sounds great, even tempered, decay a little short for most classical uses. I have a great tech, the piano sat for two weeks before being tuned. There are some pedal noise issues I need to have addressed (I had a friend come over and play last week and noticed the harp effect you mentioned, don't know if much can be done there).