Usually for the things I'm trying to record, I want to capture the space. A few weeks ago I had to record some practice accompaniment tracks for some of my wife's private voice students. What I found after moving into the new house is that my piano can be
really loud in my studio, a 11' x 11' room with windows on 3 sides and a ceiling that peaks at 14'. Also, my piano has a really powerful bass for an upright (Yamaha U1). I experimented with a few things to try to record the piano in a way that sounded good but removed the room boom, and wanted to share the results. The pieces are nothing spectacular; just a couple Broadway tunes. A quick run through iZotope RX to remove some LF rumble that must have been coming from the neighbors.
GershwinSondheimI took some measurements after I finished. The Line Audio CM3s were mounted facing straight ahead on a followinbob bar, 60 cm wide, capsules were 116 cm from center of piano and 146 cm high. As you can see, I set them a bit higher than the top of the piano to avoid some of the direct soundboard resonance.