"Industry" ways to process piano?

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"Industry" ways to process piano?

Post by legend4ry » Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:33 am

I have always gone down the light chorus/phaser > short delay > reverb route ; which sounds good and all but does anyone have any other suggestions?

My piano always sounds a bit 'too' dark, I want to brighten it up.
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Re: "Industry" ways to process piano?

Post by jrisreal » Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:37 am

light bitcrushing and saturation. reverb. filter?
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Re: "Industry" ways to process piano?

Post by Shum » Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:51 am

high shelf EQ, most of the guts of the piano will be below 4kHz so you want to boost above that, say 6 or 7kHz, let your ears decide obviously.

the route you chose is also perfectly appropriate OP.

personally i would never use distortion effects on such a tone-rich instrument as a piano but that's just me.

p.s. this is all written under the assumption that your using a synthesized or sampled piano rather than recording one.

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Re: "Industry" ways to process piano?

Post by legend4ry » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:08 am

I'm using TruePianos which I think is sampled? I have never actually looked haha!

The boost at 6-7k sounded GREAT though! thanks!
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Re: "Industry" ways to process piano?

Post by jrisreal » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:14 am

Wait...obviously you're talking about a very different tone than I thought you were. I would have lowpassed it, rather than boosting the highs. So dis-count what I said.
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Re: "Industry" ways to process piano?

Post by Wrigzilla » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:33 am

If the high shelf eq isn't doing it for you, using a brighter sounding piano is of course the obvious answer. Perhaps dig around in the upper end of the spectrum with a lowpass filter with the resonance cranked right up.

Other than that you could try sending to an aux and putting a pitchshifter set to +12 semitones followed by a reverb. Maybe severely high passing the piano's reverbs/delays auxes. Or high pass a copy of the piano and saturate/overdrive to taste.

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Re: "Industry" ways to process piano?

Post by Sharmaji » Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:35 pm

depends on the sound you want. if it's a real piano, there's often some midrange resonance that gets really pronounced; finding that and taking it down can help clear things up.

otherwise i tend to like really chunky VCA or FET compression on a piano-- gets it thick and sitting nicely in the mix. I rarely want it sparkly and verby; if i do, i'll just use a roland sample, no processing.
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Re: "Industry" ways to process piano?

Post by sunny_b_uk » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:30 pm

try an exciter for brightening, or some nice bright reverb. mid/side eqing as well maybe :)

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