<p>I am a piano major and was just wondering how everyone else recorded for their pre-screenings...
I recorded at local piano shop where they had a person with the recording tools and all.</p>
<p>I recorded in one of their best pianos but the recording had a lot of noises and didn't sound like the ones I recorded previously in recital halls...</p>
<p>my voice teacher is friends with the owner of a recording studio so we went there, it wasn't that much, 40 bucks an hour i think</p>
<p>DD's voice teacher wanted the concert sound so we had the recording studio folks come out to the church where sound was phenomenal. It was not that much more than in studio. We used the recording for NFAA and pre-screens.</p>
<p>I recorded in my school's auditorium and I hired a professional recording engineer. The recording ended up sounding really professional with no extraneous noises, which was because the engineer brought his own equipment which was MUCH better than the recording equipment built into the auditorium.</p>
<p>i recorded my first singing prescreening in our schools recording studio with our best piano (which isnt that great) but i wasnt happy with the way i sounded, even though the quality was great.
i ended up re-recording at my accompianists apartment using my belkin recording device on high quality... the quality was just as good as the professional studio...</p>
<p>Two years ago, for S (string player) college prescreens we hired profsessionals and recorded twice - once in a university recital hall and once in his teachers studio - both time with piano. We ended up using the recording from the teacher's studio. The playing was better and the sound quality not notably (pun?) diminished. Last year, for summer festivals, S did his recording in the conservatory recording studio and paid the school's pros to do it. Major expense and time committmment each time (booking studios, hiring professional recording engineers, coordinating times with pianist, etc.) This seemed to add pressure to the whole event!!!!</p>
<p>New system - Zoom H 4 that S runs himself. He records in a teaching studio after hours and only pays his pianist. The quality for S's instrument (don't know how it might be for piano or voice) has been completely adequate. He has been able to schedule recording sessions much more easily and has felt more relaxed about the entire process. If he decides he doesn't like the recording, it's not been hard to schedule a second session.</p>
<p>There are threads about this new generation of recording equipment. I'm quite excited about where the technology is going and would recommend that anyone looking at several years of CD making do a little research and invest in equipment that meets their needs.</p>
<p>thanks for all the comments and suggestions!</p>
<p>I've been trying to find recording studios and engineers but when I first called several recording studios around, they were very expensive and required certain number of sessions and hours each day, which sounded very overwhelming. </p>
<p>I am thinking of applying to a program that requires dvds and am thinking of asking a music teacher to use school's auditorium with the (not so great..) grand piano. do you think that's a better idea than use home piano?</p>
<p>Around here there are some smaller recording companies that go out and record events at the high school productions, etc. They are considerably less expensive than the ones used by professional musicians recording commercial stuff. Is there anyone like that around you? They are the ones we used when we recorded at the church.</p>
<p>If there is a local college or university with a music department, there are bound to be students who do inexpensive recording sessions---they frequently post notices on the music dept boards--or you could post a notice.
My D uses students in her music school who do an excellent job for about
$100 to $250 a session--depending on how long she needs.</p>
<p>We used a local college and the students did my daughter's CD. It turned out great. </p>
<p>We had her friend do her DVD at her accompanists house...not so great. CCM wanted the DVD and I wish we had taken a different route. It all ended up OK, but I would tell anyone to make sure it is somewhat professional.</p>