I want to record a song. I can record my voice with a microphone, which I can then connect to the laptop.
However, I don't know how to record a piano accompaniment, because unfortunately I can't connect any cables / etc…
If you have a good vocal mic, you can also take off the piano by mic.
Anyway, I was advised by everyone who deals a little with sound engineering (I'm more of a "beginner willing to learn") to always pick up instruments via the microphone instead of going directly from the amplifier or similar into the PC or an audio interface.
You can of course record a piano with a microphone.
What kind of instrument and microphone do you have? Maybe they can give you tips there.
A variant that is often used is to remove the lid and the paneling over the gaming table. Then you point a microphone at the exposed.
The only problem is that you can hear the keys extremely loud when you hit them: /
And when I record that with a microphone, you can really hear it
The problem is that you can hear the piano keys extremely loudly when you hit them…: /
Maybe I should just buy another piano😅
You can also remove the paneling under the console and use the microphone to use the soundboard. You may have problems with the pedals. Or you can remove the soundboard from the back; there you have rather little key or pedal noise.
You have to experiment with the microphone positioning and the angle; until you get something good out of it.
Uh, that might be a bit expensive: -D
Good microphones also have a recording characteristic with which one only hears loudly what happens directly in front of the microphone front and everything on the back not or only very quietly (called itself "cardioid characteristic" because of the shape of the recorded area). If you do it right, the piano should work too.
Try KarlKlammer's tip from below.
I'll just take a moment. We have an electric piano. Do I see that correctly, that "micro directly in front of the speaker" would be the right variant?
(Haven't tried it yet, it's on the wrong floor)
When someone writes the piano, I think of a pianoforte. A stringed instrument (chordophone) that is operated with keys and strikes the strings with hammers, the primary sound of which comes from a spruce resonance floor.
An electric piano is an electophone and it would be difficult to find an electric piano without outputs, at least for headphones.
I wouldn't pick up any electric piano speakers with a microphone. Depending on the desired sound, I would put it in a nice amplifier (tube amplifier) and take it off with a microphone; or give me the signal directly into the computer so that I can manipulate it; or I would just record via MIDI control commands and create the sound with software on the computer.
Shure now has a kind of combo microphone
Motif MV 51
https://www.musicstore.de/de_DE/EUR/Shure-Motiv-MV51/art-REC0012147-000?campaign=GShopping/DE&ProgramUUID=rrLAqJarLjMAAAFl.gZyjI8h
That was once tested at the "Taste World" magazine. Simultaneous recording but with a compromise.
Ie. Recording of the digital piano vs. Close-up discussion of vocals
