Jan 17, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Limits of Orchestral Mixing Be realistic about what is achievable in a professional mix and what not. Especially on orchestra recordings where the whole orchestra has been recorded in the same room at the same time, there is no real possibility to heavily alter the...
Jan 10, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Key Switches vs. Many Tracks The majority of sample libraries nowadays rely on so-called key switches. By triggering a (usually very low) note outside of the range of the instrument, you can switch to another articulation of the same instrument (e.g. switch between...
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...
