I recorded a piece to share in an ABF themed recital, this time the theme was female composers.

Here's my recording of Midwinter Memories, by Michele McLaughlin (audio only) recorded with Zoom H4n.

Here's the video (recorded with iPhone 12 pro). (If anyone have time to listen to both, please tell me which one sounds better, Zoom recording or iPhone)


Here's a link to the whole recital.

Also, shameless bump

I’m listening on my iPad, I feel like I can here more of the hum of background white noise on the first link than on the video. (I’m guessing the microphone pics up a wider range of sound than your iPhone does?) But they both sound good to me. Very pretty! I’ve been listening to a lot of random music that google picks for me and have some across several piano pieces that have made me thing “I’ll bet SK would like playing this one!”

Nice, thanks for sharing! I like the sense of fluid continuity you brought to this performance.

I think subjectively I like the H4n's bass-treble balance a bit better, but honestly I don't think with my equipment I can reliably tell the two apart.

Jodi, Ax, thanks for listening and for comparing.

I think if I were to record this again (which I won't but...) it would be better to put the Zoom somewhere else... Mic placement would probably help...

But this is a new iPhone (my previous iPhone recordings were an 8) and I think this new phone probably does a better job than the old one, reducing the difference between the quality of the phone and the Zoom H4n.

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“I’ll bet SK would like playing this one!”

I think I'm pretty predictable!

My New Year's Resolution is to do more recording and sharing of my piano playing!

That’s a great New Years resolution!

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Originally posted by jodi:
That’s a great New Years resolution!

Thanks! I would like to have something to share roughly once a month,. My plan is to go back and forth between easier and harder pieces, but we'll see how it goes!

I really enjoyed that, SK!

Thanks for listening, Mark!