Jul 4, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Small Ensemble Seating When recording or overseeing the recording of a small ensemble of musicians, pay attention to a few seating issues. If you’re not depending on a specific seating of the musicians for other reasons, you might want to go for the following option:...
Jun 26, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Cleaning Up Audio Tracks There are quite a few people who spend a considerable amount of time in cleaning tracks from real recordings and trying to remove all noises. While to a certain extent this is a good idea, remember that “natural” noises are part of what makes...
Jun 20, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
How to Record Live Musicians Efficiently If you’re recording real instruments, most of the time it is better to let them finish a take even if it contains some errors. These errors can be later patched from another take or you can use parts of this take to patch...
Jun 13, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Loops, Prerecorded Phrases and Presets The use of loops, presets and prerecorded phrases is seen very controversial among the community of composers with some people using only their own individually programmed presets and loops. There are of course two sides to this:...
Jun 6, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Recording in Two Minute Chunks Recording action passages and music that demands a lot from your players is best to be split into approx. two minute chunks and later edit them together again. With this procedure, the musicians can focus on certain passages and pull...
May 30, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Fingers off the Pan Knob The standard panning knob (or balance on a stereo signal) works in a way that it simply changes the levels of the right and left channel according to where you set it. Therefore, on stereo signals it only seems to change the direction of the...
