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Miking a Grand Piano
- a Super Audio CD by DPA Microphones
Press release, January 2008
AX24 has
been used by DPA Microphones for recording a Super
Audio CD with a number of stereo comparison and demonstration
recordings of a grand piano. The recording is made
in DXD on AX24 giving the most accurate and transparent
recording possible.
On this SACD the artist Niels Thybo plays seven
of his own compositions on a grand piano, miked
up with different microphone kits from DPA.
Each kit is suitable for various microphone
placements.
On the SACD tracks the different
microphones and posisions can be evaluated on
each played composition.
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Microphone
posisions
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DPA issues also
a booklet with a describtion of a number of
useful waysto record and amplify a grand piano
using DPA microphones. As every piano, room,
and player is different, all setups should be
regarded as guidelines. There are no strict
rules and there is no substitute for using your
ears to adjust the sound to your liking.
No equalization, compression,
or external effects have been added to the
files. All stereo pairs are normalized to
-2 dB FS PCM, allowing true impulse responses
of the different pairs to be compared.
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SACD
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info@digitalaudio.dk