[vdubreeze]

On Feb 23, 12:41*pm, "Peter Larsen" wrote:
vdubreeze wrote:
On a recording we only have the two channels, so as recordists we have
to figure out a way to achieve that pleasantness when all of the
sounds, the piano and the room, are all coming from the same plane
just left and right.

We have a different experience of what stereo is about.

Yeah, that was a bit of an oversimplification. : ) Not a single
plane. I was trying to convey that what our heads hear and easily
sort out is different from what ends up as a stereo recording with
even the best mics. Our ears/brain can sort out certain information
live that in a recording isn't as sorted out. Such as a factor in the
room that we can pay little attention to because it's behind us or
above us while the piano is in front of us, for example.

Also, I think everyone's first thought when walking into the room of
their first piano recording is "Wow. Sounds huge out here! Let's put
the mic back here in the room." And then often after listening back
it's "Hmm. We should move the mic closer in a bit" : ) There are
many things, including visual, that help our senses and enhance our
live listening experience that don't make it to the recording. So
sometimes a bit of fudging with the set up makes the recording more
presentable. Well, you know that : ) but it's aimed at the OP
because it makes recording easier no matter what equipment you go
with. And I think for casual or beginning recordists that aspect is
often thought of as what you do when you're already recording and it's
having problems, so then you start looking at the room as if armed
with a box of bandaids because the patient has begun complaining.

The most import place to put absorbers is btw. on the floor directly under
the mic position, the next most important place is the ceiling directly
above it.

Excellent advice. And it may be all that's needed.

Have fun *: )

+1


If it's fun it will be a better recording! : ) Or at least avoid
the reverse where it's so not fun that you bag it before getting it
down.


v