[CAUT] 5 Pianos

[Kent Swafford]

On Dec 18, 2007, at 8:46 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote:

> Kent,
>
> Remind me why close miking seems to be the thing?

I'm no recording engineer. I'm a piano tech who was a bit desperate to  
improve my voicing skills, and I felt the need to directly and  
objectively compare the different sounds of different pianos. Some  
pianos are in dreadful rooms; close miking lets you record at low gain  
and room noises and general background noises become much less a  
factor. That's all. And I can carry my entire recording setup in my  
tuning case.

Miking way outside the piano is great, but I couldn't make that work  
for the voicing comparisons I wanted to do.

Kent