PianoTell Recital #3 Is Now Live!
Final comments! Thank you everyone for sharing your performances, and to everyone who listened, liked and commented on mine!
Sam — "An Important Event" from the Scenes from Childhood - That sounds like a fun exercise for the piano group! I thought this sounded great, and this tempo sounds good to me - makes the important event seem ‘grander’ than the faster renditions!
Rob — Pembrokeshire Promise - A beautiful part of Wales! The piece sounded very nostalgic, perhaps how you were feeling when you wrote it. Very nice!
Sgisela — Danza de los ñáñigos - Another very cool (and tricky!) dance piece from you! I really enjoyed this piece and your playing.
Gooseberry — Nights in White Satin - Lovely playing! I bet it was fun putting it together from a few different sources.
bSharp — Journey - Open Arms - Very nice! I enjoyed the contrast in your playing between the flowy-bit and the LH octavey-bit.
Greta99 — Berceuse, Op. 23 No. 1 - This was lovely! I’ve never heard of the composer, I will have to check her out. Thank you for sharing!
ShiroKuro — Wind - really cool! The piece and your playing captures a sense of mystery and wistfulness for me.
navindra — Over The Rainbow - Great arrangement and nicely played! I didn’t understand everything you said about the sound production but I thought it sounded really fantastic!
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Seeker I’ve been playing around with this plugin for a few days and it’s an interesting tool. Obviously our setups are very different, but I’m curious around how much do you turn up the width dial in your recordings?
rach3master Can't remember exactly, but I think it's about 2/3 of the way up the slider. It's a matter of taste. I believe the amplitude of the signal is boosted too. To my ears, it is a definite enhancer.
rach3master
A terrific performance! I loved it. Your grand piano is gorgeous.
plop_symphony
This is a cute little piece, very well played.
rach3master You might put up 2 clips, 30 seconds or so, side by side: one with, one without the widening plug-in and get reactions.
I learned a short passage today to experiment with a more concerto-friendly audio mix, so this was something interesting to try as well. Here's the reference clip without Ozone Imager.
Here's the same clip with Imager width set at 50%.
The effect is more pronounced in the middle of the passage, and yes, the whole clip does become slightly louder. Personally, I'm a bit undecided as to which I prefer.
rach3master Listening with my AGK-K240 headphones, I like the one with Ozone Imager better. Without it, at least with my equipment and ears, I find a sort of hollow in the mid-range of the piano with the volume being less and the vibancy of the sound diminished compared to what I hear coming from further left and right. It's not quite a "hole", but it sounds further away, or something. There's not quite a gap in the sound stage, but the middle sounds different.
The Imager, as you've used it, fills in that hole yet keeps the sound field expanded fully right and left.I listened carefully, and it's not smearing the sound or making it less clear - just kind of blending it better from the center out to the sides. I don't remember now if there are "wet" and "dry" settings or their equivalents, but you could mess with those too. I find this blended sound to be more what I would hear were I playing the instrument, actually more natural.
Anyhow, I think it sounds better WITH.
Your playing is gorgeous, and the instrument sounds really beautiful too.
Bravo.