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Recording upright piano

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Recording upright piano

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Larry: Here at Jackpot Recording, we don't have a grand piano. We don't quite have enough space to fit one in here, even though I sure wish we did. We have this wonderful upright piano that my piano tuner actually found for us. She was really picky and didn't like our old piano, so one day she came in and said, I've got it. I found one for you. This thing is fantastic. And I'm going to show you a bunch of ways to mic this up. Get great sounds out of it. Now the first thing we do, and my friend Todd here helped me earlier, is pull the piano away from the wall. One of the reasons to do this is, think if of like if you had an acoustic guitar and you were playing up against a wall. It kind of chokes down the sound and, gives you like a first real close reflection and, and kills what's happening. And plus, the back of the piano is making a lot more sound than most people realize. There's a lot of sound coming out of the sound board on the back here, so you've got to keep that in mind. When…

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