Mixing a solo piano track - or what has to sound as if it were a solo piano track - is often incredibly difficult, at least as difficult as mixing a band or orchestral track, particularly if you’re working with a virtual piano, all specimens of which, when exposed, are prone to show their many weaknesses much more than their rare qualities.
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(You also might want to consider fractionally lowering the Impedance-parameter as well as raising the ‘Direct sound duration’ of the notes in the midrange - only possible if you have the Pro version of Pianoteq - for a less dense sound.)įor my taste, the chosen space in your recording sounds perfectly OK.Ĭan’t agree wit that.
In this case, I would definitely load up at least one more instance of the Pianoteq instrument to take care of the somewhat problematic midrange of the piano: the tone there is borderline congested and some careful EQ’ing might open things up a little. (Anything to increase the illusion of depth in a recording of a virtual instrument in a virtual space, is always welcome, in my opinion.) (Not a rarity for me to use up to five instances of the same piano.) With the added bonus that I can place the left hand range ever so slightly further away from the listener than the right hand. Besides that after i alraedy got the Addictive Keys Electric Grand for a great price at JRR Shop i finally also bought the Addictive Keys Studio Grand that is basd on a Steinway Model D (like many other libraries including also The Grandeur).
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I also often uses several instances of the same instrument in order to have more control over specific problem areas in a virtual piano. Yesterday i updated to Kontakt 5.6 via the new Native Access software and both Kontakt and the NI Pianos seem t olaod a bit faster now. For some reason, that brings out any dynamic inconsistencies and/or other flaws in a mix that much clearer, I find. To my ears anyway.Ĭan’t tell whether it is Pianoteq’s built-in compressor or some plug-in in the audio chain that’s causing this dynamic flatness, but whatever it is, I would definitely suggest to make sure its presence is a lot more subtle than it currently is.Ī good trick, in my experience, is to mix occasionally at really low levels. The middle section, where the piano part is denser and happening in a higher dynamic range, sounds compressed - quite heavily compressed in fact, to my ears - resulting in evened-out levels that are quite unrealistic. Listening to this track for example, I would think it impossible *not* to notice that the dynamics of the audio don’t sound quite right.
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