Assuming the dampers are working correctly and that the swoosh sound is not abnormal -- there are two solutions that I know of: 1) Replace all the damper wedges with pads. Yes, this is a silly suggestion and, in the real world, it won't work very well. Damping in the lower tenor/bass will not be very efficient and then your client will complain about poor damping. 2) Encourage the sound recording engineer (or whatever) to stop burying the microphones inside the piano where they pick up and emphasize the swoosh sound. This does work but your recording people may not want to do it because they've never done it that way before. Or because they don't have the right kind of mikes. Or because the sound room is bonkers. Or because...well, whatever. Del _____ From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Dave Smith Sent: August 18, 2007 7:48 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: damper shoosh noise I kinow this is in the archives, but the site seems to be inop this morning, so please humor me.. A recording studio is hearing the damper shoosh which occurs when depressing the sustain pedal. Is there a way to decrease or eliminate this sound for close mic-ing? Thanks for the help. Dave Smith SW FL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070820/363645f1/attachment.html
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