[Piano Recording] Balada Mexicana

[timothys_monster]

Hi everyone,

I hope you had a nice week so far. Just recorded a piano student's audition tape.

She chose Maurice Ravel's "Piano Concerto" and Manuel María Ponce's "Balada Mexicana". So I decided to upload the shorter one.

I used four microphones to pick up the sound of a huge but rather shabby Steinway grand piano. I read through the whole SOS article about recording piano and chose Al Schmitt's go-to technique.

2x Line Audio CM3 as a spaced pair above the hammers
2x Rode NT5 as a coincident pair in line of the lid

And here is the result:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PWw...ew?usp=sharing

Please tell me what you think about it and what you would have done differently - bearing in mind that it is a classical recording, no pop or jazz.