The English Felt
The English Classic piano re-recorded with felt.
ByTim Didgiunaitis
The story
The English Felt – by Tim Didgiunaitis
Following on from last years English Classic. I have great pleasure in introducing the English Felt. Same piano, different recording technique. After watching Christians felt piano experiments I thought it only fair to have a go myself. I cut three pieces of felt to the sizes that I needed due to the design of the piano and stuck the felt to the inner workings of the piano with blu tak. (high tech)
I recorded the piano with two Rode M5 small diaphragm Condenser microphones going in to the Tascam Model 24 hybrid analog mixer/audio interface with just a touch of the analog compression. This in turn fed in to logic and Christians recording template.
There is just a slight bit of room on the instrument and a low cut filter. Nothing more.
I really enjoyed recording the piano again and hope you find it useful. Needs the full version of Kontakt 5.8.1.
Reviews
Very inspirational
Listening to the demos opened several doors immediately! Rich, rich sounds... .Textures and depths abound in this one.
Perfect for current and upcoming projects.Beautiful tone but really noisy
i really like the gentle cinematic tone of this. Its very soft but i really dont mind this, you just cant use it for every situation but its still very useful to me. There are no round robins which i dont necessarily mind but its always nice to have some for more realism. The main problem here is that its really noisy. This can sometimes me ok but the problem is it takes up unnecessary frequencies and when it comes time to mix and master the noise is just gonna get brighter and louder. I would love to see an updated version of this because i really do love the tone.
Not for me
I kind of understand the idea, I guess. A few tweakable parameters could'nt hurt. Not bad! I was just looking for something else to complete my already existing piano libraries.