8/9/2023 0 Comments Piano strings theory![]() Instead, I opted to rig my two Aston Starlight mics as a spaced pair, each on its own stand and suspended in Rycote InVision shockmounts for good measure. ![]() She normally records to an old version of Logic Express using a couple of mics on a stereo bar, but I wanted to try something a little different - I did try a stereo bar at first but couldn't get the mics aimed where I wanted them. Several duvets were already hung from a picture rail around the room to help damp any boxy 'small room' acoustics, and Helen had also placed some damping material in the piano itself, around the edges of the piano frame. Helen's piano is a well-maintained Bechstein Boudoir Grand Model A dating from 1896, and it takes up most of the space in a downstairs room that adjoins the family kitchen. As she often records into her own system running an old version of Logic Express, Helen has her own mics and they'd be available to me, but I decided also to take along some of my own so we'd have some options on the day.Īudio titled Scented Pine With Cello And Violin Mix 1 by Sound On Sound Piano With no 'control room' to speak of, monitoring would be entirely on headphones, and I'd also need to split out headphone feeds for the performers, so I took along my four-output Aphex HeadPod headphone amplifier. ![]() That would give me up to eight inputs, which would be more than enough. The voice and piano recording was to be done at their family home, so I decided to assemble a simple portable recording system based on my 12-inch MacBook Pro running Logic Pro X and a PreSonus AudioBox audio interface. Helen had scored out all the lines in Sibelius, and both songs had similar formats and required similar treatments. The brief seemed simple - I'd record Alice singing and backed by Helen on the acoustic piano, and at a later date we'd add a 'string section' by overdubbing some violin and cello parts. In this article, I want to discuss a recent recording session with Alice Marple-Horvat and her mother Helen, who co-wrote the two songs we tracked that day, 'Cinnamon Wine' and 'Judas'. Our engineer tracks and comps some piano and vocal performances, before overdubbing both real and sampled string parts. Rebecca plays cello overdubs, which were captured in Paul's studio using a Lewitt LCT-140 Air mic.
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