Topic: Likely Must Have Plug to Record Your Next Solo Piano Spectrum
Important is a spectrum. It is so important that Philippe Guillaume mentioned it in a noteworthy reply to Pianoteq 8.2.0 update with muffled sound?:
To get an idea of what sort of changes in settings are induced by this modification in the soundboard, you can compare side by side the NY Steinway D presets from 8.1 with 8.2. The most visible changes may be the Note per Note Spectrum Profile. On a similar vein, changing microphones positions usually also requires some revoicing via the Spectrum Profile.
Just as Philippe Guillaume shares some of the insights from MODARTT on the importance of your spectrum in any piano recording, now available to you is a newly released plugin by Melda Production. That in a lot of ways might affect just such a spectrum. It's MCenter!
I got it!
I got it since directly it can allow me to dial in easily just the spectrum I wanted to have inside my final piano recording. That's whether I needed to widen or narrow my stereo image but preserve most or some even of the original spectrum before I had finalized it.
While Spectrum profile on PIANOTEQ does permit individual adjustments to the first eight (8) overtones of range from a piano, MCenter does to the entire range before the individual adjustments even become necessary and does so via a single knob that is to affect the whole spectrum, of course at the software level once in a DAW.
Although Stereo width also can come in handy and is sufficient upon a performance you intend to release later, MCenter appears a tool specific to the exacting detail of width when put in a DAW recording of the fine instrument.
MCenter is available at the $10.00 (US) price until March 10th from Melda Production.