I have them Kawai PR-1 system. It works well. We don't live in the quietest neighborhood but we get good tracks off of it (good extraneous noise rejection) . The EQ settings and reverb settings (selections) are decent although some may want to leave that for the lab. Andrew At 03:05 PM 2/6/2007, you wrote: >I suppose most tuners who have been around a few years have seen >several examples of recording techniques for pianos. >In the studios which specialise in the recording of jazz, pop and >group music there appears to be a tradition of close mike >positioning of the type you are talking about. I have seen this >accompanied by the complete deadening of any 'ambiance' which may be >present in or around the piano so that the engineers can play around >with the sound later and add their own reverb and atmosphere. A >grand piano close miked and covered with a duvet is not an unusual >sight in a recording studio. The recording of classical music is a >totally different system and it seems that a good (often almost too >good) sound is really only acheived with the main mikes between 1 >and 5 metres away, and in a studio or hall which has a recognised >good acoustic of its own. Even then , engineers usually edit the >sound afterwards. > >I recently came across the adverts for a small recording system made >by Kawai which enables the player to record straight on to CD. It >has two small powered mikes which the advertising blah suggests are >placed under the soundboard, attached with Velcro onto the maing >bracings under the piano. The equipment allows for a certain amount >of added reverb etc later > ><http://www.kawaius.com/main_links/digital/Special/pr-1.html>PR-1 CD Recorder > >ric >. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070206/2ac99abe/attachment.html
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