
Armistice
Son of Yoda
On a related note.... who amongst you piano recorders would, if unable to control reflections well enough or for other quality reasons, use a MIDI piano and quality VST as a substitute...?
Piano samplers are now so good they even mimic complicated techniques like half pedalling, so
have a listen to these. The first is a piano sampler - a pianoteq if it helps, and the second is a moderately close miked Yamaha C3 recorded with very little room sound because it's going to be played in dance studios, so usual reverby 'real' sounding piano isn't good. The sound of the piano samplers now is really good and better than what you get with a poor piano in an average room. The pianist here is a good example of a 'proper' pianist - he hates plastic keyboards and plays a proper weighted keyboard and can't cope with any delay between what he feels and what he hears. He is very happy with the pianoteq VSTi and for the first time, we didn't use his rather nice real piano in the recordings.
For me, it also mean I could do the tiny editing repairs that would usually mean a re-take in the live recording, and experiment with the different mic positions the sampler can manage, let alone the different pianos. It was nice to be able to choose a more appropriate sound for a few of the pieces on that CD.