Piano Recording Techniques & Tips - from Steinway to Upright ( GREAT audio samples)

Super in-depth feature with 3 GREAT pianos to record - each completely different, from Steinway D to Yamaha to 'Mrs Mills' - HEAR the various treatments (dampers etc) and microphone positions and choices - listen to at least three different mic setups for each piano with plenty of music to listen to with an excellent pianist helping demonstrate the various techniques.
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Prepared piano - Ear Plugs
01:20 Felt on piano strings (upright Yamaha)
02:20 Character piano (Mrs Mills)
02:45 Microphones - Steinway setup
08:20 Steinway microphone audio samples
10:30 Yamaha upright mics and samples
15:30 Character piano mic setup
19:25 Andrew Sunnucks on Piano for Film
25:35 EFFECTS piano
29:00 3 piano ending
Watch how leading engineers and composers setup and record piano for film and general music recording. A film composer and pianist plays for us to help demonstrate 3 different pianos and how they approach recording - mostly with 3 different mic setups so that you can compare and hopefully use these ideas to help you get a better piano recording.
Some of the things that can make the most difference are what you do to the piano before event recording it and just a few examples of this prepared piano treatment ideas are shown and we hope to record further features with more. From felt or ear plugs on the strings to dog leads laid over the Steinway's strings, there's a whole world of creativity open to you to create unique sounds.
Some of the microphones used include:
Telefunken ELA M260
Coles 4038
B&K 4006
Copperphone
Carbonphone
AEA R88A Active Ribbon Microphone
... and many more
Special thanks to School Farm Studios for their pianos and time! Owner Andrew Sunnucks of Audio Networks and engineer Stefano Civetta were brilliant hosts and a very big thanks to them and Hester for her assistance. A huge thanks to Ben Andrew for giving up his time to play and come up with some music for us to record and to Stuart Bruce for asking the questions and helping organise this feature.
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[@medardfischer]

Terrific video! Both informative and inspiring. The mix at 9:28! 😍

[@RecordProduction]

Thanks so much! 😎

[@MuddyGunns]

Absolutely love that you guys are doing this type of video! Thank You!! Sincerely, Rob Gilmore (your mastering client from Florida, USA).

[@RecordProduction]

Thank you for watching and your support 😎

[@68Snaps]

That was a wonderful mix of art and science. I don't know anymore if I love the carbon mic or the tube SDCs more! And Ben Andrew's playing was hypnotic. But I must say, for a "standard" piano sound, the pair of DPA mics really impressed me. Could I ask what preamps were used? Because the sound in phenomenal!

[@futuristiccavemanofficial]

finally! I've ABSOLUTELY needed this!

[@RecordProduction]

Thank you for watching 😎

[@FLH3official]

25:50 "Piano Unleached" 😁

[@RecordProduction]

That was nearly the video's title :-) Thanks for watching all the way through, hope you found it interesting?

[@FLH3official]

@@RecordProduction Obviously! If not, would have watched it to the end?

[@rickenbacker40011]

lovee it, wow those 260's

[@RecordProduction]

Absolutely! Beautiful 'rendering'. After filming this I ended up hunting around the retailers to see what the 3 - set costs. Although not cheap I reckon they're well worth it.. Thanks for watching :-)

[@rickenbacker40011]

@@RecordProduction totally agreed! If they m a k e a set of 3 im on it. but will probably need to get 2 sets

[@RecordProduction]

They do maker a set of three!

[@rickenbacker40011]

@@RecordProduction ahh no way!! I need ittt

[@spanioggel]

Fantastic Video! 9:15 what pice is he playing?

[@RecordProduction]

Thanks for your comment. Ben was playing one of his own compositions.