This is the isolated track of an AEA R88 mk2 ribbon microphone on the grand piano at Sear Sound studio in New York City. This is the raw file straight off the custom Sear-Avalon preamp with no EQ, compression or other processing applied.

This file accompanies our Fix It In The Mic video about Sear Sound Studios. Watch the video and learn about the setup here: 
http://bit.ly/searsound

Music: Frédéric Chopin - Prelude in E-minor (op. 28: no. 4)
Performer: Roberta Findlay
Recorded by Chris Allen at Sear Sound NYC

Download the high-res 96 kHz / 24 Bit linear wave audio file for best playback quality!

Learn more about the AEA R88 microphone here:
http://www.ribbonmics.com/microphone/legacy-series/r88-mk2

Sear Sound Piano - AEA R88

VIOLA - AEA N8 MIC - RPQ500 PRE - BURL MOTHERSHIP

VIOLIN - AEA N8 MIC - RPQ500 PRE - BURL MOTHERSHIP

STRINGS - AEA N8 - RPQ500 - BRICASTI M7 - TK BC501 - BURL MOTHERSHIP

Cello Pizzicato - STRINGS - AEA N8 - RPQ500 - BURL MOTHERSHIP

OH - AEA R88 - The Ribbon Pre - Thermionic Pheonix Compressor - 50:50 Wet:Dry Blend

OH - AEA R88 - The Ribbon Pre - Thermionic Phoenix Compressor - 100% Wet

OH - AEA R88 - The Ribbon Pre - Lynx Aurora 16

Trumpet - 50 50 Blend - Manley Ref Gold - AEA 44C - AWS - Symphony MK II

Trumpet - AEA 44C - AWS - Symphony IO MKII

I see the dark beyond the light and pray to get home alive
Humbled and sobered, I take the lead
And then I draw back

Stay the moon

Arm in arm and home from war, fortresses overrun
A summer of dry hope falls away and then the white comes

Stay the moon

See the art in the baby's eyes
and the light to return home to tides of somewhere far
I might still be alive

I am a part
I am a piece
I am a psalm
I am the church
Another pawn with a back to break
Wishing on bold, gold corporate woes to burn and raze

You are the sea and the dark
An unknown goal without a mark
Come morning, you knock at the door with a basket of dried berries and sweet liqueur

Gold star to clear to bar for someone bleached in light
Skin and blood is warm to touch
Tomorrow's bite is cold

Untitled

AEA is the leading manufacturer of high-quality ribbon microphones and microphone preamps. Our acclaimed line of Big Ribbon™ microphones in the RCA tradition is an industry standard and in use around the world. 

AEA is family owned and operated in beautiful Pasadena, California. Proudly independent, we still manufacture all our microphones by hand right here in the United States. 

#AEAmicrophones #ribbonmics

Sear Sound Piano - AEA R88

AEA Ribbon Mics

Related tracks