My daughter (age 10) is performing in a piano competition next month, and due to Covid they are asking for submission by video. I bought the Yeti Blue mic and I've been playing around with the best sound settings to prepare for making the recording. We have a Yamaha C3 grand, and the room has quite good acoustics. I found that I'm getting the best results by placing the mic about 1 meter behind and to the right of the piano, and using the cardioid setting, with the gain at about 10 o'clock. I'm also using a very good webcam (Logitech Brio), but using the Yeti for sound is better than using the webcam's built-in mic.
So far so good.
Now here is the strange thing. After spending hours optimizing the setup with the Yeti and the webcam, I did a small comparison using my mobile phone (Samsung S21) from about 1.5m away from the piano, and the sound is much clearer and more natural than using the Yeti. The Yeti sounds muffled and "dull" (see sample below). So my question is, can someone give me some hints where to place the Yeti and what settings (and recording software) to use?
I'm doing all this in Windows 10, using the app SplitCam (since for a while I was experimenting with using two camera angles). I've also tried using the Camera app in Windows, but the sound quality was even worse, I think, the piano sounded more metallic.
Below are the sound samples - the "best" Yeti setting I found, and the simple S21 recording:
Yeti Blue
Samsung S21
So far so good.
Now here is the strange thing. After spending hours optimizing the setup with the Yeti and the webcam, I did a small comparison using my mobile phone (Samsung S21) from about 1.5m away from the piano, and the sound is much clearer and more natural than using the Yeti. The Yeti sounds muffled and "dull" (see sample below). So my question is, can someone give me some hints where to place the Yeti and what settings (and recording software) to use?
I'm doing all this in Windows 10, using the app SplitCam (since for a while I was experimenting with using two camera angles). I've also tried using the Camera app in Windows, but the sound quality was even worse, I think, the piano sounded more metallic.
Below are the sound samples - the "best" Yeti setting I found, and the simple S21 recording:
Yeti Blue
Samsung S21