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- Page 3 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™...
- Page 4 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) •...
- Page 5 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.
- Page 6 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 dampers.
- Page 7 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 friction, place the support bracket on the edge of the piano case opposite you.
- Page 8 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 box.
- Page 9 Now you should be ready to use the PianoMic™ System and achieve some impressive sonic results for recording or live performances. If you have any questions after reading and following the directions in this manual, please contact Earthworks directly using the contact information on the back page of the manual.
- Page 10 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 performance of microphones.
- Page 12 Made in U.S.A. Earthworks, Inc. • 37 Wilton Rd. • Milford, NH 03055 603-654-6427, ext. 14 • www.earthworksaudio.com email: sales@earthworksaudio.com • Printed in U.S.A.