Tutorials
Piano micing techniques
w/ Andrew Scheps
Piano micing techniques
32 min • 2018
There are many different approaches to recording a piano. With so many options, it’s difficult to know where to start.
In this puremix.net exclusive, Grammy Award Winning Engineer, Andrew Scheps, shows you how he approaches micing a grand piano. Andrew shows you multiple techniques that cover a wide variety of genres using different combinations of close and distant microphones, spaced pairs and cleverly placed mono microphones.
Learn how to:
- Choose the appropriate microphone for the job
- Thicken a track by adding mono microphones to spaced pairs
- Accurately capture the tone of the instrument
- Make a grand piano sound more like an upright
- AKG C12A
- Electro-Voice RE20
- Mojave MA-200
- Neumann U67
- Neve 8068
- RCA KU3
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14 reviews
f.otto • Tuesday, April 16, 2024
One of my favourite videos so far. Well explained and very insightful. Fabrice pairing up and talking with other engineers is something I enjoy it a lot and I think works very good in terms of education. Thanks!
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katokun • Thursday, December 14, 2023
Great video!! Please, add subtittles in spanish.
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Petso • Tuesday, July 19, 2022
The KU3 and 67 are distorting...
roland@zaccour.it • Monday, February 1, 2021
Great Video! I could get very good results with KM 184 instead of C12 in the same position on my 100 years old Ebach Piano.
Much better than any sampled piano.
Thank you
Roland
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luisin • Sunday, December 22, 2019
Estupenda información. Por favor, subtítulos en castellano.
Gracias
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kuldeepnc • Thursday, October 10, 2019
A great tip I use for reducing click bleed is placing a low pass filter on it so the player feels it more than they hear it
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imuc • Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Fantastic demonstration. Such great sound and all done so simply once you know what to do. And wow on the KU3's .. just wow. C12A's sounded great too especially on the Satie piece.
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MarcoPolo • Thursday, January 31, 2019
Liked the demonstration. Would have been cool to have the recordings of these mics and placements available for download, for more close listening.
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sdicky • Sunday, July 15, 2018
mute the click at the last chord .... i love you Andy :)
jamesbrownmusic • Monday, April 23, 2018
Another super interesting video, thanks! Hearing distortion on the louder stuff. Left channel of the RCAs and the 67 in particular. What's going on there?
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constanza • Monday, April 16, 2018
Subtitles please
Linusthe2nd • Friday, April 6, 2018
Any recommendations for positioning if you had to use SDC mics?
composermikeglaser • Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Just great!! Thank You Fab and Andrew:)
puReTom • Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Thanks for the great video! A lot of great information!
Below is a link to a piano recording with an AEA R88.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpI5g0od1n0