Slouching Raymond
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Most keyboards have stereo left and right outputs.
For my stage piano, the lower notes come mainly out of the left channel, and the high notes mainly from the right channel.
When playing the piano, this gives a very realistic user experience, but that is from the perspective of the player.
An audience listening to a real grand piano performance, does not hear that same perspective, although the piano has a physical size in the room space, and
higher and lower notes would originate from different points in that space.
A simple recording method would be to record the piano's stereo outputs as a stereo track, but you would be projecting the player's prospective at the
listener, with low notes from the left, and high notes from the right.
An alternative method would be to record the piano as a mono track, where the keyboard itself just averages the left and right outputs.
With a mono recording, you lose any stereo effects, such as auto-panning.
I can think of an alternative technique of recording the two keyboard outputs as separate mono tracks. This allows you to place each source at any point in the
listener's stereo space, with maybe the lower notes coming from the right. The two sources could be close together, somewhere in the stereo space.
What do you do?
For my stage piano, the lower notes come mainly out of the left channel, and the high notes mainly from the right channel.
When playing the piano, this gives a very realistic user experience, but that is from the perspective of the player.
An audience listening to a real grand piano performance, does not hear that same perspective, although the piano has a physical size in the room space, and
higher and lower notes would originate from different points in that space.
A simple recording method would be to record the piano's stereo outputs as a stereo track, but you would be projecting the player's prospective at the
listener, with low notes from the left, and high notes from the right.
An alternative method would be to record the piano as a mono track, where the keyboard itself just averages the left and right outputs.
With a mono recording, you lose any stereo effects, such as auto-panning.
I can think of an alternative technique of recording the two keyboard outputs as separate mono tracks. This allows you to place each source at any point in the
listener's stereo space, with maybe the lower notes coming from the right. The two sources could be close together, somewhere in the stereo space.
What do you do?