Oct 31, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Breakdown Charts When you’re recording your music live, so-called breakdown charts are very helpful. Basically, this chart lists every cue that needs to be recorded with title, length and specific instrumentation of the cue. Also, it notes specials like when there’s a...
Oct 24, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Overdubbing Small Line-Ups Overdubbing the same instruments to create a bigger and more epic sound only works to a certain extent. While it is possible to overdub a quite large string section to give it a little bit more substance and power against the...
Oct 17, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Video Frame Rate and Codec Issues Unfortunately, problems with video frame rates and codecs are not that uncommon and can become quite desastrous in the film world when not detected early on. Whenever you’re scoring to picture, there are things that you should always...
Oct 10, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Tired Ears If possible never deliver a final mix for important clients right after you finished working on it but rather sleep over it. Very often, when you work for a long time on a piece you either start to not hear problems or start to hear problems that are not...
Oct 3, 2019 | Daily Film Scoring Bits, Technical
Placebo Effects in Mixing or Mastering Mixing and mastering has a lot of placebo effect potential and considering all the esotheric advices and approaches that some people advocate for on the internet regarding the improvement of their mixes, it is also a field to get...
