About 2/3 months ago I bought a grand piano that I use daily for practice. However, for some time now I have had a project in mind for YouTube and I would need to record my piano.
I should preface that I don't need ultra-high quality audio, partly because the room is not soundproofed; I have simply put up many paintings and rugs to reduce reverb. As far as I know, I should have at least two microphones available for decent quality, one pointed towards the bass strings and one towards the treble strings, and optionally one pointed in the middle for the mids.
My question is: which microphones could I purchase at a fairly low price but that would still give me good quality? And, above all, how can I then record them to obtain good quality?
For now I cannot spend much, also because I am still a student and don't have a job, so I have to go quite slowly with expenses, given that I have already faced the cost of the grand "baby".
Buying the equipment necessary for piano recording has a significant cost and one must be very competent in the matter. The piano is by far the most difficult instrument to record. It normally requires 3 or 4 microphones. Two small-capsule ones outside the side of the piano and one or two large-capsule ones on the tail of the instrument. It is advisable to use dedicated converters and preamplifiers. If you only need to make a few recordings, it is better to hire a recording studio equipped with a grand piano, requesting only to perform the takes, without mixing, without post-production. If you want to buy the equipment yourself, budget AT LEAST 2000 euros for an extremely tight setup. If I may know how much you intend to spend, perhaps we can be more precise.
Buying the equipment necessary for piano recording has a significant cost and one must be very competent in the matter. The piano is absolutely the most difficult instrument to record. It normally requires 3 or 4 microphones. Two small-capsule ones outside on the side of the piano and one or two large-capsule ones on the tail of the instrument. It is advisable to use dedicated converters and preamplifiers. If you only need to make a few recordings, it is better to hire a recording studio equipped with a grand piano, requesting only to perform the takes, without mixing, without post-production. If you want to buy the equipment yourself, budget AT LEAST 2000 euros of expenditure, and even then you will be very tight. If I may know how much you intend to spend, perhaps we can be more precise.
Sorry, I read your message later. I don't need to make extremely high-quality recordings; at the beginning, even an amateur-type recording is enough for me, it's just that I wanted to use 2 microphones to place inside the soundboard (one for the lows and one for the highs) to perhaps avoid the usual hiss caused by the video camera or the excessive reverb due to the fact that the room is not soundproofed. Then later, if I have the possibility and notice that the idea is developing in an interesting way, I might also opt to increase the recording quality and therefore spend more
