This is IT!

 
This is all the stuff I need to make a 2 track recording. I'm off.

Karyn
How do you stop it falling off the wall?

Velcro?

craigb

Karyn
How do you stop it falling off the wall?

Velcro?

That's such a rip-off.

Karyn
How do you stop it falling off the wall?

Very droll
 
 
 
I'll just....
 

quantumeffect
I'm confused, I thought this was It:
 

The "lost" keyboardist for ZZ-Top...

gswitz I hope your mics were pointed in the correct direction 
(unlike your camera)

Btw, if you right click the image and choose open in new tab, it looks portrait to me (Opera).
 

Thanks, Mike.
 
First, I'm sorry that it's a pain and thanks for checking out the content anyway.
 
Second, the issue is with me uploading to Microsoft Cloud Storage (Blob) and not assigning the proper content type. Some browsers don't care what the 'content-type' is set to. If it reads a png or a mp3 it will handle it. Others require to be told what it is in a header tag.
 
I'll try to do a better job setting the content-type.
 
Try this...
http://stabilitynetwork.blob.core.windows.net/g-tunes/20140926_DC.html
 
Does that work ok in your browser?
 
btw, the default content tag is application/octet-stream which is what triggers your browser to try to save it locally.
I need to set
- html pages to: html
- images to: image/png
- mp3s to: audio/mpeg

Hi Geoff,
 I used the link to the folder to get the two versions of 09.
 
 I kinda like the old school piano tones you got, but there's a dominant sense of "room" and a distracting amount of mechanical noise that I imagine you'll want to acknowledge.
 
 It's hard for me to say that the EQ made much of a difference. In any event I think using both an aggressive low cut and a bit of low shelving to clear up the low mids will be helpful before any mild upper mid range EQ boosts will be very noticeable.
 
 If it were me I'd chalk this up to a good outing and go back and open up that lid. That's the easiest way to minimize the pedal and mechanical noise. FWIW I have sometimes placed mics beneath closed pianos, but the  traditional sound is from the top.
 
 With your new mics you'll have to experiment with placement. There are lots of opinions about this. I try to stick my head in and listen for the sweet spots and place my mics over a high range area and a low range area. I often times also have an X/Y set up out in front of the piano as a back up or alternate. The close mics are very helpful when you are in a small room. Mic'ing a piano is quite a challenge and a craft. The need to "close mic" often times conflicts with the off axis sound character of cardiod mics, so you'll find that placement is critical as there is a lot of sound coming from a very wide sound board. It's not like pointing a SDC at an acoustic guitar and searching for a sweet spot target. A piano's close mic sweet spot is more like a "zone" and you'll have to work with both mics to balance the highs and lows and not have confusion in the mids.
 
It's a great vocation for people interested in mic craft. Don't hesitate to experiment and take it step by step over the course of a few sessions.
 
Go for it with enthusiasm and enjoy the great music!!!!!!!  

Well,  the eq definitely fixed the closed lid dullness but its brought out so much background noise it ruins the recording.  Its also added a lot of hiss that wasn't apparent in the first version, almost like tape hiss.
 
Of course the advantage of an open lid and close(ish) miking is the extra volume you get from the piano allowing you to reduce the gain and thus all the background noises.