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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
Just found a photo of the recording sessions featuring exactly the mic position @Peter Lemken, clavierhaus mentioned, in the virtual prolongation of the lid surface.…
- Rainer
- 2 wk ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
The parameters distance and angle between the microphones are kind of like the focal length of a lens, to use a photography analogy. You can use any distance and angle between and beyond the “named”…
- Rainer
- 3 wk ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Peter Lemken, clavierhaus Haha yes! If i do that i will normally climb up a chair or ladder to listen for myself if it's nice there ... then from between the hinges i peer through the gap under the…
- Rainer
- 3 wk ago
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"Auf die Welt"

Hi, this was a test recording we did to decide over the instrument and room for recording an album. It's not my composition, i'm the sound engineer and got permission to share.…
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- updated 2 wk ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Peter Lemken, clavierhaus you mean you raised the microphones up to the level of the virtually prolonged surface of the lid - am i getting this right? That would be a viable approach.…
- Rainer
- 3 wk ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Peter Golemme @GerryM Hi, i had written this to Peter in a direct message but here again for everyone: You could try to take an EQ (i suppose you'd use a Plugin?…
- Rainer
- 3 wk ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
@Peter Lemken, clavierhaus Hi Peter, Our brain can be thought of as a network of specialized “decoders” that interpret the pressure waves reaching our eardrums and turn them into meaningful auditory…
- Rainer
- 3 wk ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
Hi@springgrass , i can address this immediately: for the greatest dynamic range you ideally use microphones with very low self noise so that the most silent parts can still be caught in all their…
- Rainer
- 3 wk ago
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Re: How Do You Record Your Acoustic Piano?
Hi everyone, I would like to sincerely apologize to anyone who was left waiting with open questions. About a year ago, I lost two extensive drafts I had prepared to address all of the unresolved…
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- 3 wk ago
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Re: Bach is Difficult! A Live Q&A for Curious Pianists
Hi Dominic, thank you so much for getting to my Bach question last tuesday. You helped a lot also with some general remarks and about the pedal. It's totally true,…
- Rainer
- 7 mths ago
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages and Answering Your Questions!
as far as i got now i might suppose that keeping the hands exactly sorted (left hand bass and tenor voice, right hand alto and soprano) it's maybe really a practice thing to get a sensible touch for…
- Rainer
- 8 mths ago
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Re: Mastering Tricky Passages and Answering Your Questions!
Dear Dominic, for measure 190 of J.S. Bach's Contrapunctus XIV (the unfinished fugue) i'm searching for a fingering to play it fluently and musically. The challenge is to get the second C in the bass…
- Rainer
- 8 mths ago
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Re: Practicing on Electric Pianos YouTube Video!
@Andrew Smith They have good price/quality ratio and are mostly relatively light. So if i had to carry it around quite a bit, i'd definitely look at the Casios.…
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Practicing on Electric Pianos YouTube Video!
@Paul the MP11SE is not easy to calibrate for Pianoteq, if you use it only as a controller the VPC with its built-in Pianoteq calibration might suit you better. :)
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Practicing on Electric Pianos YouTube Video!
Overall pretty happy with the Kawai VPC1 and Pianoteq here. The "Virtual Piano Controller" is an action-only keyboard, without any sounds or speakers, designed to control virtual instruments via Midi.…
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Digital piano vs acoustic grand piano (Knabi 6' 11”)
With the Kawai VPC1 + Pianoteq i'm very happy. But i don't have to transport it and while it is a stagepiano/slab design, it is quite heavy. Before i had the Casio PX5S and this one is very…
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Bach WTC Book 1 No. 8
@Katrina Wei i think it's widely considered the historically correct pitch. And for my feel it does the pieces very well, so much so that i think it must be true :)
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Bach WTC Book 1 No. 8
beyond the key: if by chance you play or practise on a digital instrument then personally i highly recommend to (at least from time to time try out to) play Bach pieces at a = 415Hz.…
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Resurgency: Your Mid-Year Practice Routine Boost!
Pls don't make my year one month shorter 😅
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: A deep dive into the 9 basic articulations at the piano with Dominic Cheli
@Dominic Cheli You're welcome, helps me as well! Now with these settings it merely does not compress where your audio mostly was but the range above it.…
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: A deep dive into the 9 basic articulations at the piano with Dominic Cheli
@Dominic Cheli YW - did you get to it? i think it's more saturatedly recorded now than some i've watched, you've got still good potential to go. Watched the meters during the stream.…
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: A deep dive into the 9 basic articulations at the piano with Dominic Cheli
Hi Dominic, wich software are you using to send the streams? Watched some older streams and could hardly get you loud enough on the laptop. If you still use same settings i'll look into it for you -…
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Studio Set-up
@Darin Brady https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=how+to+cancel+tonebase "All plans come with a free trial period so you can experience tonebase before starting your paid membership of choice.…
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Studio Set-up
@Darin Brady https://app.tonebase.co/piano/live/player/lisa-yui-beethoven-moonlight https://app.tonebase.co/piano/courses/player/seymour-bernstein-beethoven-moonlight-sonata https://app.tonebase.…
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
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Re: Studio Set-up
Did you mean this or was there another one? https://piano-community.tonebase.co/t/g9y3p1j/how-do-you-record-your-acoustic-piano
- Rainer
- 1 yr ago
- 1
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