We started recording new piano album for Nadia Gourskaya. She played beautiful improvisations. It will be a meditative soft piano playings with great emotions and cozy atmospheric piano sound with crisp authentic mechanics.
I used 4 microphones:
Main LR mics where Schoeps CMC6 mk2h matched stereo pair straight left and right on the piano. These mic connected to antelope audio orion studio 2017 preamps with tube V76 emulations and Pultec VEQ High Pass filters.
Also I used separate central channel for best stereo image and fullness with Rode NTR ribbon mic wired to Grace Design M201 Preamp, also used Pultec filters for low freq. and V76 emulation. During all recording I changed "warmth" level of saturation for central channel for various parts depending on dynamics of composition.
And 4th channel was Mono Room AEA N8 microphone wired in 2nd channel of Grace Design M201 with BA-31 germanium preamp emulation and Pultec HPF in antelope card.
Piano - Lipp, Richard & Sohn antique piano from Germany.
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