If there is automatic gain control on your record, it may be limiting the volume of your fortissimo blows. My digital recorder has several gain settings, which helps in different recording situations, for example
Patrick C. Poulson
Registered Piano Technician
Piano Technicians Guild
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From: David Boyce
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 10:00 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Perfect Pitch / Children
When I sent my tuning videos into Randy Potter for critique, one of the things he would always send back to me was for me to hit the >key a little harder, with an "mf" blow. Now, we all know that "mf" means "moderately loud". But if I were to show you guys the videos, you would see that I was hitting >the key "fortissimo". I would just scratch my head on that one. But, what's loud to me, may not be loud to you. Or what is fast to you, may not be to me, etc.
>The line of work we are in is very subjective. Not just this business, but music in general.
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