Nov 8, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Choir Recording When you’re adding a real choir to your music, in most cases it is recorded seperate from (and after) the orchestra has been recorded. There are three main reasons for this:A choir needs to rehearse and can’t really sing music prima vista. Even the...
Nov 7, 2018 | Composition, Daily Film Scoring Bits
The Danger of Composing on the Piano Composing on a piano is a great tool but can also be quite limiting. For example, chord voicings that sound good or decent on a piano don’t neccessarily translate too well to real orchestra.Usually, the biggest problem with such...
Nov 6, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Film Scoring
Music as Slow Motion Device Music can alter the perception of time quite heavily. It can actually even work like a subjective slow motion.For example imagine a huge battle, the last few minutes of it, the hero is fighting, lots of fast action and instead of bringing...
Nov 5, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, General
Film Composer’s Time Management Tight deadlines can be a major factor standing in the way of creativity and always come quicker than you think. It is up to you to develop a strategy to handle such situations as they are very common in the “media world”. Some...
Nov 2, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Orchestration
Piccolo Flute Highest Register In it’s highest register, the piccolo flute can be very piercing and shrill and sometimes even painfully loud. This can be a great effect when you want a really edgy sound. For example in action or horror music this sound can work...
Nov 1, 2018 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Basic Orchestral Microphone Setup In orchestral recordings, the main microphone is the so called Decca Tree, which is positionated a few meters over the conductor pointing towards the orchestra. The signal from these microphones is also the one that is used as...
