<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 18, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Barbara Richmond wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Kent,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Remind me why close miking seems to be the thing? <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I never sit <in> a piano to listen to it and when I was trying to get recording of a piano I rebuilt, much preferred the sound with the mic outside the piano (by many feet)... Someone said, "But you'll have room noise." <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Well, I do generally listen to pianos in a room, too.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>:-)</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thanks,</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Barbara Richmond, RPT</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">near Peoria, Illinois</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div>Hi Barbara,</div><div>I'm not an expert, but have hobbied with it a bit. To me, it depends on what you are trying to achieve with the recording, and or the repertoire being recorded. Do you want a live or studio sound? Are you recording a soft, romantic ballad or a big, powerful work? Also depends on your equipment, especially the microphone, but also the other processors involved. You can get a lot of different effects with different combinations.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I, personally, love to hear the nuances that can only be heard up close. Backing away covers up some unwanted piano noise, but loses those up close nuances. It just depends on what you're doing.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>My thoughts,</div><div>Jeff</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Jeff Tanner, RPT</div><div>University of South Carolina</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>