Topic: Stereophonic / Exaggerated Left-Right separation
I'm looking to find a way of recreating an exaggerated left/right player perspective in order to recreate the effect on some tracks I am familiar with. So, simply, I'm aiming for the lower half of the keyboard to play through the left speaker and the upper, the right. Now, I've fiddled a lot over the last few years with this with the various different Pianoteq models and settings, but, unfortunately have never quite achieved what I'm looking for with the acoustic instruments. I've always found that there is too much spillage from one mic picking up too much of the other side of the instrument. I've tried binaural too, and the stereophonic setting. I found out yesterday, that the stereo width position can have an impact on the stereophonic setting which I had not been aware of before. So, I noticed that setting various widths in mic output and then moving to stereophonic gave different results.
Generally, I've found moderates success with some of my own presets, but, I've just bought the Rucker's harpsichord (it is excellent), but, I cannot get this left-right separation as I want. For the Ruckers harpsichord, I was trying to recreate the mic set up on a track by the band Yes called 'Madrigal,' on their album 'Tormato.' I've tinkered around a fair bit, but it is as though the mic for the left hand side/bass side always seems to pick up what's going on on the right hand/upper part of the keyboard. Binaural comes fairly close, but, again, not enough separation.
Another track I've tried to emulate is 'Firth of Fifth' by Genesis from their album 'Selling England by the Pound,' where the bass is nicely separated left and upper keys to the right. Incidentally, can any piano experts tell me what that piano model was? I think the recording studio was Trident, London.
Any help, very much appreciated as always.
Ian
