Dear List, much of what has been said is good advice but the fact is as someone (probably Jeff) has said that if you ask 100 sound technicians you will get 400 different answers. Although joking he really hit the nail there. It really is not about the equipment, although one should stay current, it's more about having the "ears" and experience to tune the room using whatever equipment. This won't be taught at a PTG class. After twenty plus years of working in major halls in the New York and PHiladelphia area and many college campuses and working on too many to count recording sessions, and some of the most successful in the world I should add, I have seen and heard such a variety of set ups that we would need a day to just describe the equipment and that's not including mixing. I must agree with my good friend Tim Coates (again) that the AMT-M40 is a revelation currently. No one mike does such a grand job of capturing the entire piano evenly and is as fexible and costs so little ($399.00 at the micguys.com) and is so easy to place as TIm has noted. And the AKG-414's are somewhat standard. I personally like currently (again) for small formats in medium sized halls two AKG-414s and one AMT-M40 to smooth things out with the lid open full stick. The AKGs can be too powerful and the modeling technology in the AMT system gives you a good head start at equalizing and it's right inside there on the plate looking alot like a PZM. For the particular situation original question about big bands and banjos I would use two, or one, AMT-M40 and close the lid because the idea (Jeff again?) that you can get the rest of the guys (or gals) to back off is (or was that your subtle humor Jeff?) nonsense. I might happen for the first two tunes but... well you get the point. Most of all I think piano technicians should stay out of this area and not ad hoc the sound guy because we don't like being ad hoc'd neither. Hey? It certainly wouldn't hurt to understand the fundamentals better so Rick F is definitely in the right direction with Keith, but let's not expect too much from a PTG class and get all heady and mouthin' off to the sound technician just because he doesn't have his own guild. Chris Solliday ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Coates" <tcoates1@sio.midco.net> To: "University Technicians College" <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:56 PM Subject: [CAUT] Re: piano miking > The large performance hall I work in uses this miking system: AMT M40 > mike. It can be found at music123.com. > > http://www.music123.com/AMT-M40-Piano-Microphone-System-i62009.music > > Lori Line's techs use this mike. Their backup system are two $2000 > Neumans. Our technical director has been doing this type of work for > at least 25 years and has never found a simpler or better system. We > have major performers come through and all really like the sound. Of > course it helps that the piano is tricked out with a Wapin Bridge and a > Stanwood action. > > Tim Coates > University of South Dakota > University of Sioux Falls > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > >
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