Aug 23, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Combining recordings from different rooms Combining sample libraries or recordings that have been recorded in different rooms with different ambiences in one piece is usually not that much of a problem as some people think or make believe. Especially in more tutti...
Aug 16, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Noises on Recordings Noises on a recording can be very annoying and are easily overheard on a session (as you focus more on the music obviously). Usually the sound engineer is supposed to spot noises but they can slip by quite easily and what you could barely hear on...
Aug 9, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Strategies for using reverb There are probably thousands of philosophies of how to add reverb to a recording. Especially with orchestral tracks, many people are concerned about creating a proper field of depth within the orchestra and create a proper impression of...
Aug 2, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Recording Take Protocol When recording music with live players, make a protocol of takes in some sort of form. I prefer marking the score sheets with differently colored markers where I circle or highlight things that were particularly problematic or good in...
Jul 26, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Recording musicians separately Whenever you record an instrument or a section separate from the rest of the orchestra/line-up, never just record them to click and nothing else. Musicians hate playing something without hearing or knowing the context that they’re in...
Jul 19, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
ff Brass layer One of the reasons for “fake” sounding orchestral mockups is the overuse of the ff-layer on brass samples. Very often you get to hear for example horn lines that last for a minute and are all played at ff without any rest or natural phrasings. In...
