Release Year: 2012
Producer: MacProVideo
Author: Singing Canary Productions
Duration: 44 min.
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English
Description: Learn how to record a live string section (violins, violas, cellos, and double basses) and properly process them in this informative new tutorial by experienced audio engineer Clint Murphy.
Learn how to record a live string section in this informative new tutorial by expert audio engineer Clint Murphy at Modern World Recording…
Violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. Imagine having the opportunity to record a live string section: Where do you begin? In this step-by-step tutorial, produced by the experts at Sing Canary, you’ll see and hear everything you need to know to set up, mic, and record strings.
Recording orchestral instruments is an art that requires precise setup, positioning, and knowledge of acoustics. It also requires you to understand the way these instruments produce sound. This tutorial explains the precise microphone positioning needed to bring out the rich tones these classical instruments produce.
Once the section is recorded, you’re taken back into the studio for a look at EQ, compression and mixing techniques. From there you’ll also learn about overdubbing techniques that transform small ensembles into full string orchestras.
Every engineer has to be ready for any recording situation. This tutorial, Recording Strings, gives you the foundation you need to create awesome sounding orchestral sessions.
Content :
1: Prologue
01:26
1. Prologue
2: Introduction
02:04
2. Introduction
3: Small Ensemble Mic Setup
03:19
3. Stereo Mic Technique
00:56
4.Room Mic Summary
05:27
5. Spot Mic Technique
00:30
6. Spot Mic Summary
00:43
7. Round Up of Mic Set Up
4: Small Ensemble Recording
03:19
8. Mic Preamps, Phase & Gain
01:38
9. Filtering The Spot Mics
01:15
10. Compressing Strings
01:55
11. Tracking The Strings
04:59
12. The Quintet Session – Part 1
06:54
13. The Quintet Session – Part 2
5: Large Ensemble Techniques
02:57
14. Large Section Mic Set Up
00:58
15. Large Section Decca Tree
05:31
16. The 19-Piece Session
Example files: not provided ~ Video format: MOV
