Recent content by rob aylestone

The honest thing about making this sort of music sound good really isnt the gear. It’s the instrument and the space. I made a video way back where I took a decent single mic and while the pianist was playing, moved it around even underneath, in a normal room in his house and what you hear was...

A concert hall? You haven’t given us a clue in the recordings. I was thinking a large practice room, with sound treatment, that kind of thing. If it is a typical one then the job is to capture the instrument in the space. A nice piano in a concert hall should sound like the ‘whole thing’. I...

That’s a more realistic sound, but still very close and the stereo field is very strange. Are you certain you have not got two sets of mics with one around the wrong way. I’m hearing left hand right and right left which is fine if that’s where you wan5 the listener, but either the piece was...

The raw track sounds better but reveals a few things. The mics are too close - so you are hearing more of the hammer sounds and less soundboard. That could be why some notes jump out a bit. I think maybe you've just not found the sweet spots. I have a Yamaha grand, and with the mics close in it...

Got you. I’d like to hear it without compression. Never found YouTube really an issue with lighter classical piano. To my ears so that’s just me, it just sounds close miked with reverb rather than ‘real’ if you know what I mean.

Compression in the same sentence as classical piano? Reverb wise they are as Raymond says similar - but if you hadn't said it was real, I would have guessed a good sample package, where the MIDI value crosses the line into the next sample with harder attack - some of the F's leap out and a...

Is this the one you posted in a different post with the track?

Longevity with a device connecting to a computer makes me smile. History seems to suggest manufacturers abandon driver writing at around 5 years, or two OS changes. This member posted on just one day and never came back. Ironically, one of his posts just said…… Hi y’all! I’m ciotevai. It’s my...

We are a little confused about why you posted this link to another forum, when we have a pretty healthy mastering section here. As a new member, you've probably not noticed its quite rare to start a new post, with a bizarre title and just post a link with no comment. Sometimes folks do, but...

It was in that nice slanted wooden cabinet like the 377. The one where horizontal, is sloped upwards at the back, or vertical the top was tilted back a bit, so the spools didn't fall off! The 388 just duplicated the pcb to give two extra channels with the same design, and the two sliding record...

Yep the one I remember was the 388. Very reliable and easy to lace up. No 15ips version though. It couldn’t do sync though so not too useful for our sort of stuff

There are a few studers popping up from time to time and other higher price studio machines like of course ampex. Sony had a 4ch version of the 377 intended for quadraphonic systems, plus another of a different design. I think there was a Philips one too but very plasticky. This would have been...

Rich summed it up - if your target audience is phone listening, then nothing at the bottom is worth chasing. Plus decent HF response might be nasty sounding on a phone. The Michael Jackson example has octaves at the bottom (or maybe mega 1st harmonic) - but you still think you are hearing the...

Ben, did you start two accounts up at the same time?

Pretty much the usual choice is that if you want a sound for any instrument to be the same on speakers and small devices, you have to mix for the feebler one. That means some eq and treatment choices must be constrained within areas they both can manage. Michael jackson’s Billy Jean was a good...