Got a dinky little mic from Glenn today, to have a go at recording Swim
playing her piano.

I haven't messed around with microphones since I were a little lad (and
Pontious was a pilot) and I have to say it's been a hoot so far, tripping
over spare kit and recording the resulting outburst, recording silence with
the mic switched off and recording the neighbour's lawnmower (patio door
open) kinda thing!

Anyway, in case anyone is interested, I've posted a couple of tracks of her
grinding out a bit of JSB for comparison - one is on a Korg electronic piano
hooked straight into the computer, the other is a 'real' piano recorded with
the open mic:


http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/Korg.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/keith_g/show/Piano.mp3


If anyone has any comments/suggestions to make I would be interested to hear
them (other than Swim's playing - I can't do much about that!) and I'd be
very interested to hear what anyone thinks about the (obvious) differences
between the above samples?

Early days yet and a few things to sort out. I think there's some hardware
issues need resolving - I've no idea what the 'chuffa chuffa chuffa' is on
the Korg recording for instance (but I'm not bothered as it's on its way!)
and there's been quite a bit of hiss which is a bit of a mystery....??