Jul 25, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Safety Takes Whenever you record live instruments, no matter if it is just a soloist or a whole orchestra, always go for “safety takes” if time allows. Those are takes that you do after the point where you are happy with a take. It can and will happen that you don’t...
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...
Apr 11, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Revisiting Cues in the Same Recording Session When recording with real musicians, try to get a perfect take of a cue while you’re at it. It usually doesn’t work that well to revisit a cue “if we have time at the end” in order to get a better take. It will take almost...
Jan 24, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Marking Scores During Recording Sessions In recording session situations, it is crucial to keep an overview over which parts of a cue are already covered in a good take and which parts still need another take or a few bars to patch them later in the editing. A very...
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...
