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I have the L pointing to the bass strings and the R to the treble strings. I have a really cheap tripod I use that allows me to position the mic just inside the piano. These indicate the left and right stereo channels (left playing through your left ear and right through your right ear when you listen with headphones).

I’m using the Shure MV88 (see below) and if you look closely at it, you’ll see an L on one side and an R on the other.

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How to mic the pianoīelieve it or not, I spent hours watching different videos on how to Mic a piano … it’s an entire subject in itself … but in honesty at this level you don’t need to worry so much and, in any case, we only have the one microphone. Things to think about are getting it as close a possible to the sound board, but not too close to the pedals or action itself as the microphone will pick up bumps and squeaks. The ‘Best Place’ will depend on your room, your microphone and your piano of course. If you’re using an iPhone, you could also use Garageband for this easily enough.Īnother advantage of capturing the Audio and Video separately is that we can place the Microphone in the best place to pick up our piano’s sound rather than from the best video viewpoint. We do exactly the same here but, because we’re going to capture the audio separately, we’ll actually use the Motiv App record. In this previous blog post, I went over setting up the Shure MV88 Microphone. If you only have one smartphone just borrow one from family or friends whilst you record. We plug our microphone into one smartphone and position it by the piano, we position another where it gets a good view of us playing, press ‘play’ on each one, sit down and play! This is actually a lot simpler than it sounds if we have two phones. The first thing we will do differently is to record the Audio and Video separately. Again, keep reading … this is as simple as drag and drop and press a few buttons. To get around these disadvantages, we need to apply some effects to the audio we record on our smartphones by using our computer. Were we in a proper recording studio, we’d have specially treated walls to prevent any sound reflection and we’ also have a sound engineer on hand to help. When we record at home, the room we have almost certainly doesn’t have fantastic acoustics, there will be background noise or too many close by hard surfaces bouncing the sound all over the place. This is how we are used to listening to pianos in concerts and on recordings. It’s a consequence of the acoustics of the space – which were often specifically designed. This is what happens in a concert halls or churches for example. Reverberation is effectively the effect you get when sound bounces off walls and other hard surfaces. I’ve dubbed this ‘Audio Engineering for Idiots’ (and count myself in the ranks of the Idiots here). As you’ll see, this really isn’t complicated at all. I feel it very important to urge you to keep reading … using words like adding Reverberation and some of the words that will follow is probably making you think ‘oops! Too complicated to be bothered’. This blog post is to go with my YouTube video on adding Reverberation to a home audio recording of the piano. An essential step in Audio production is to add reverberation to recordings of your piano.