Patrick's mic set-up with mistakes that may work for close rock

This started out as an attempt to emulate the 4 mic setup used by Patrick to record the EBVT with just 12ths. I wasn't watching the front view of our mics page, and mistakenly pulled some mics too far to the left. But the result may be of interest: Not the sound that Patrick gets. Instead  a close-up, slightly rattly, more percussive piano that can serve as a starting point for solo older rock, singer-songwriter arrangements. That's all this is--a lot of harp sound and lid sound, with much of the sound trapped close to the player, even though the reverb is on. You may want to add more reverb. Sounds better to play than in the mp3.

http://www.forum-pianoteq.com/uploads.p...micing.mp3

http://www.forum-pianoteq.com/uploads.p...ng%20I.fxp

A very few other changes were made to the default K1 Close mic --mainly shortening the strings, since Patrick recorded with that small Yamaha and gets such a good, but very different sound. Still working on that. (The thread at PW describes his mic set up on page 29 (http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthre...99/30.html) and the photo on page 27 of that thread (http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthre...99/27.html) shows the actual mic arrangement used in his two recordings. The mics to the right are adding a little bass. No delays, gain compensation, etc. A rare thing, really, to have a set of close recordings with a fairly close-up photo of the exact mic arrangement used. )

EDIT: Just looked up the mics. That little old Yamaha has $6,000 of mics pointed at it. The Neumanns are around 1K each, and the two DPA cardoids under the hood are twice that.