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Topic: No Discussions regarding 19th Chopin Competition?

Steinway for Chopin XIX
Probably what shocks me the most in this forum is the fact I haven't seen people discuss the pianos/recording technique from literally... any era of the Chopin Competittion. Maybe I haven't dug far enough or I'm still fairly new to pianoteq.
Back with better tweaks (it looks like my ears were the problem with my old presets which sounded horrid), I just did a little research on the mics used in the 19th Chopin competition. 2 Schoeps omnidirectional mics (guessing it's the MK2 capsule with CMC6 amp and RC1200 stand?) and 3 Omni's, where I chose the DPA 4006 mics as the best candidate to match the tone of the brodcast from the Chopin Institute.
As for EQ-ing, I did notice quite some boom in the bass from the brodcast, so I turned off proximity effect compensation and boosted the subbass to match even better. Slight adjustments in the middle to upper range, but nothing else too signifcant.
For the other adjustments, I cannot recall what else I've changed from the piano. I think that's enough explaining from me and it's time for some feedback. Enjoy.
Polonaise Fantaisie
Ballade3
Nocturne Op48 No1
Berceuse Op57
Heroic Polonaise

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Re: No Discussions regarding 19th Chopin Competition?

I once asked Big Model about the recording system and hall features of Chopin International Piano Competition, and then made an ugly preset

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Re: No Discussions regarding 19th Chopin Competition?

xujunzao1015 wrote:

I once asked Big Model about the recording system and hall features of Chopin International Piano Competition, and then made an ugly preset

Do you have any details on the miking in the Chopin Competition?
It may help improve this preset, well maybe not fully since I'd still have to guess the mixing, but more or less get even more identical to the brodcast.

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IndoPlayer wrote:
xujunzao1015 wrote:

I once asked Big Model about the recording system and hall features of Chopin International Piano Competition, and then made an ugly preset

Do you have any details on the miking in the Chopin Competition?
It may help improve this preset, well maybe not fully since I'd still have to guess the mixing, but more or less get even more identical to the brodcast.

我認為是一對MK2的ABPair然後遠距離放一堆的空間混響（deepseek說會給很多的不同混音給轉播，然後廳裡面可能遍佈著30多對麥克風，顯然pianoteq9p裡面做不到），但主麥應該是一對中等距離的MK2 AB，不要太近

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xujunzao1015 wrote:
IndoPlayer wrote:
xujunzao1015 wrote:

I once asked Big Model about the recording system and hall features of Chopin International Piano Competition, and then made an ugly preset

Do you have any details on the miking in the Chopin Competition?
It may help improve this preset, well maybe not fully since I'd still have to guess the mixing, but more or less get even more identical to the brodcast.

我認為是一對MK2的ABPair然後遠距離放一堆的空間混響（deepseek說會給很多的不同混音給轉播，然後廳裡面可能遍佈著30多對麥克風，顯然pianoteq9p裡面做不到），但主麥應該是一對中等距離的MK2 AB，不要太近

我曾經也試過dpa他們家的

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xujunzao1015 wrote:

我認為是一對MK2的ABPair然後遠距離放一堆的空間混響（deepseek說會給很多的不同混音給轉播，然後廳裡面可能遍佈著30多對麥克風，顯然pianoteq9p裡面做不到），但主麥應該是一對中等距離的MK2 AB，不要太近

I'm guessing that the 30 microphones are for the orchestral (finals) configuration, if I wasn't wrong it was much less for the 3 main stages