Piano micing techniques

There are many different approaches to recording a piano. With so many options, it’s difficult to know where to start.

In this puremix.net exclusive, Grammy Award Winning Engineer, Andrew Scheps, shows you how he approaches micing a grand piano. Andrew shows you multiple techniques that cover a wide variety of genres using different combinations of close and distant microphones, spaced pairs and cleverly placed mono microphones.

Learn how to:

• Choose the appropriate microphone for the job
• Thicken a track by adding mono microphones to spaced pairs
• Accurately capture the tone of the instrument
• Make a grand piano sound more like an upright