Disklavier

My wife is recording on a Disklavier Mark III Control Unit DKC55RCD for the purpose of a recorded audio accompaniment.

1) To perfect the recording, she wants to reduce the effect of the note attack, especially on the lower/bass notes

2) Straight mic is too harsh

3) Mic'ing from DSK speaker output is audio of MIDI and sounds too muddy

4a) Editing the MIDI shows Ch 1 with controller 64 (sustain pedal) AND notes; Ch 2 shows the identical controller and same values as Ch 1
4b) I deleted the duplicate controller channel w/o noticeable affect

5) Converting MIDI to MP3 of course is dependent upon sound card of computer, but the overbearing note attack is still present.

I have an old MIDI editor, MidiSoft/Studio 4 and Cakewalk 7. Right now we are experimenting with limiting the sustain controller to a max value of 100 to see if that has any affect.

Suggestions needed to get a decent audio to remove note 'attack' via MIDI events and/or reduce muddiness of sustain pedal.

Anyone willing to listen to the file and give advice would be greatly appreciated.

Fred
New Jersey