What you’re looking at in this video is my home piano, but the whole point was to record it in a way that feels ridiculously close, resonant, and sustained — basically that “after you play and it just rings out forever” sound. I was inspired by someone recording piano with a LOM Geofon, so I did a bunch of testing to find the most resonant placement. My favorite spot ended up being the bottom left corner near A0: super sustained, dry, and clicky in a way I really like. I also tried sticking the Geofon on a metal board inside the piano, which sounded insanely resonant and metallic (not natural, but definitely something I want to turn into a different instrument later). Because the Geofon tops out around 1,000 Hz, I paired it with two Zoom recorders to bring back the missing top end: a Zoom H2n inside the piano body and a Zoom H5 up top to catch the key hits. I recorded every note three times, let it ring as long as possible (some low notes went 40–50 seconds), and even recorded the sound of lifting the key. After denoising, chopping, and aligning everything, I built playable instruments in Kontakt and Decent Sampler with mic-mix controls, then took the resonant tails into extreme paulstretch sound design and Serum 2 patches (wavetables, spectral, granular, and some very hollow phaser/flanger chaos). Everything I made — instruments, samples, and presets — is bundled on my Patreon, with a free sampler option too.