Name: Chopin Motifs - Cardioid Mic Setup - Seiler Piano by MrSh4nkly
Duration: 3 min 26 s
Description: Main mics (foreground) span and angles per Neumann app based on 186cm piano length with mics 4 ft from center of piano

Test 3

Test 4

Seiler Grand Piano Sound Check - 2 AKG C414 XLII Mics at the Tail

Motifs from Chopin's 9th Etude and 4th Prelude; piano is 2012 Seiler SE-186

Mic positioning and usage based on concepts explained by Piano World Forums user emenelton here (full disclosure: Zoom mics NOT used for this recording): https://forum.pianoworld.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/3580037/zoom-q3hd-reverb.html#Post3580037

Mic Check with Chopin Motifs - Seiler Piano

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Blumlein Technique used for microphone configuration:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blumlein_pair
Sample is excerpt from Chopin's Op. 10 No. 9 Etude

Blumlein Mic Configuration Sample - Seiler Piano

Main mics (foreground) span and angles per Neumann app based on 186cm piano length with mics 4 ft from center of piano

Chopin Motifs - Cardioid Mic Setup - Seiler Piano

Main mics (foreground) span per Neumann app based on 186cm piano length with mics 4 ft from center of piano

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Matched pair of Soyuz SU-013 FET small diaphragm condenser mics, 4ft from center of 186cm piano, bow side, half-lid high, 116-degree splay, 27cm apart, front facing mic to right ear, tail side mic to left ear. Matched pair of AKG C414 XLII microphones on cardioid setting, 2ft from tail, 50% strength (for color only), 35cm apart, slight splay favoring treble with left ear mic. Focusrite Clarett+ 4Pre preamp.

Chopin Motifs - Cardioid Mic Setup - Seiler Piano

MrSh4nkly

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