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From: Richard Webb on 28 Nov 2009 00:19
On Fri 2037-Nov-27 16:50, bob writes:
>> uprights to grands, for awhile I was using two BB pickups
>> whenever I'd encounter a piano at a club I played.
> THen I went with the BB pickups, two augmented by the 421.
<snip>


> The barcus has its place, but it sound too chimey and honky for my
> tastes by itself. Now, with a pair of 414's or such with one and
> your cooking on gas.

YEp, I used the Senn 421 to give it a little balls, best mic I owned at the time, and mainly used the bb pickups for the
monitors and a little attack on the mains.

ONce guitar god got a smaller amp we were loud in the house, but our stage volume wasn't that excessive. Drummer could
actually pull back to brushes once in awhile with some of
the stuff we played <g>.

> Also, its good to get more gain in the monitors. Trying to use a
> pair of 414's doing a loud pops type situation is a recipe for gain
> problems in the monitor for the piano

YEp, and I didn't try to fight it as I noted.

I did like the helpenstil (seplling) system on the grand I
used it on though. Looked at buying one for myself two or
three times.

> Its interesting to watch how many different ways there are to mike a
> grand....

YEp, and another fave was of course the pair of sm-81s.

About as many different ways as there are pianos and piano
players <g>.

Regards,
Richard
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