In my case I picked out the piano because I used a proper piano player, the piano is not a moving instrument which helped us placing the microphones and seemed a good idea at the time, later on I ended up having hundreds of sounds to choose from but I will get to that in a bit.
As we all know an upright or grand piano has 88 keys. I also managed to find out all the keys and the frequencies required for each key in order to achieve a proper piano sound:
Having a proper piano player 50% of the work is done before starting because the time for post production diminishes considerably. The first problem encountered was, how to record the notes to be easier to edit, so I came with the idea of making a table with each note and the frequency required for that note, in this way I could figure out if the piano is in tune and how the notes will be recorded. Another great thing that saved me time was that we recorded each note at 4 different velocities starting from the bottom (Left side) to top (Right side).
The studio chosen was EFS1 where we recorded the grand piano using 2 stereo techniques and a room microphone. We used a XY pair of AKG C414 in front of the piano right inside and the second pair of XY Sontronics STC 1 at the end of the piano to get the resonance.
Sontronics Orpheus was used as a room microphone but because is a very sensitive large diaphragm condenser microphone we couldn't use the sound of it because he picked up every sound made from outside.
We used 96kHz sampling rate at a resolution of 24-Bit the whole recording took 5 hours and has a size on disk of about 15GB.
The software used for this recording is Pro Tools 10.3.7 with the HDX Rednet audio interface.
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