Jan 3, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Samples vs. Real Musicians Real musicians don’t work like samples which brings advantages and disadvantages. Musicians are people with a musical understanding and a sense of context, you don’t need to explain to them the obvious things, neither in written form nor...
Dec 20, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
CLASSICAL MUSICIANS AND CLICK TRACKS Don’t expect every musician to be able to record with click tracks. Classical musicians who don’t do a lot of film work often have big problems when recording with a click track which has several reasons: First of all, classical...
Dec 13, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Project Archiving After you have finished a project, put some effort into archiving it properly. Just because you know now that all final project files are in an obscurely named folder deep down in the folder structure doesn’t mean you will remember that in a year...
Dec 6, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Mock-Up Weaknesses If you can not mock-up an instrument convincingly in a piece (that eventually will end up without recording of real instruments in a score) due to the lack of decent libraries or just out of the fact that this instrument can not be simulated...
Nov 29, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Protools in the Film Scoring World No matter what DAW you use to work in and produce, when working in the film scoring field you should have at least elementary knowledge of using Protools. Most recording studios run on that software providing nothing more but a...
Nov 22, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
First Chair Simulation in Mock-Ups A good way to make loud brass chords in the same family (e.g. a triad in the trumpets) sound more realistic in mockups, is to have the top note playing with a slightly stronger dynamic than the other notes. In real orchestras, this...
