Serious Realism | Noire Piano VST | Edvard Grieg - Norwegian Melody

Описание: A new piece recorded for an upcoming piano album release with music by Edvard Grieg. Recorded with Noire piano VST, performed by my wife Sally. A lot of processing was needed to get the sound right. My ambition was to get a realistic genuine piano performance that would be as good as indistinguishable from a traditional piano recording.

This is an experiment different possibilities to record classical piano. Everything is recorded to a metronome, and in some places I've even quantized the notes. Using tempo changes and humanization to create the illusion of a spontaneously phrased musical performance. This gives me more control, and the end result can get really clean, but I also think that there is nothing like a real musical performance and it's both time consuming and hard to get it as good (If even possible?).

Noire Piano settings:
Preset: DARK

I've turned up the "Color" to +15%
Pedal noise: -80 cb
Mechanical Noise - -20 db
A bit widened stereo image

Plugins used:

EQ both before and after Reverb. Boost of highs and reduction of low mids
Pro-C (Fabfilter) Ratio 2:1
API550 (Waves) Boost highs and lows +2 db
Bloom (eoksound) Preset: Grand Piano, amount: 3.0
Seventh Heaven (Liquid Sonics) Boston hall, 1,8 sek. -15.0 db
Pro-R (Fabfilter) Piano Hall, 2,59 sek. Mix: 5%
Panagement 2 (Audioburn Sounds) - About half way back in the room.
Bloom (eoksound) Preset: Factory Default, amount 3.0
Pro-L (Fabfilter)