Earthworks PM40 User Manual

Manual is about: PianoMic System The Ultimate Piano Microphone System

Summary of PM40

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    Congratulations on your purchase of the innovative earthworks pianomic™ system. We know you will be thrilled with the results you achieve using the pianomic™ sys- tem for both live performance and recording. Items enclosed with your new earthworks pianomic™ system: pianomic™ system model pm40 1 – pi...

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    The pianomic™ system provides the following benefits: • excellent overall piano sound with uniform level from all strings • superb sound with the piano lid up or down • tremendous gain before feedback • minimal leakage from other instruments surrounding the piano (with piano lid closed) • microphone...

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    Any recording or live sound engineer will tell you that conventional microphones do a poor job inside a piano with the lid closed. Sound engineers were amazed when they heard the exceptional sound quality of the pianomic™ system used inside a piano with the lid open and at half-stick. But they were ...

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    5. The pianomic™ can be placed inside the piano with the microphone heads ei- ther facing the dampers (figure 5) or facing away from the dampers (figure 6). For optimum results, the pianomic™ system should be placed in the piano with the microphone heads placed two to three inches away from the damp...

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    7. Once you have determined which placement will provide you with the ability to have the microphone heads two to three inches in front of the dampers, you are ready to place the pianomic™ system inside the piano. With the bar fully ex- tended and the clutch adjusted where there is still a little fr...

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    Via a 5-pin xlr connector. The bottom of the electronics box has two xlr-3 connectors that will connect the microphone outputs to the preamp inputs of your mixer. 13. Notice that the top of each microphone head has a number. These numbers correspond to the numbers on the bottom of the electronics bo...

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    7 pouch attached to piano leg the enclosed leather pouch has velcro straps that allow it to be attached to the leg of a piano. The pouch is open at the top and the bottom has a strap to prevent the electronics box from falling out of the bottom. There is an opening at the bottom of the pouch to conv...

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    Earthworks: the new science in microphones david blackmer, the brilliant engineer who invented the technologies of dbx, is also the inventor and founder of earthworks. In the last few years of his life, david developed a number of revolutionary technologies that dramatically improve the quality and ...

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