Westwood Instruments – Solo Winds Untamed (KONTAKT)

By | August 13, 2024

 

Publisher : Westwood Instruments
Website : Westwood Instruments
Format : KONTAKT
Quality : 24 bit 48 kHz stereo
Requires the FULL version of NI Kontakt v5.6.8 or above required!


Description : Beautiful and bold woodwinds
Woodwind sample library for Kontakt, including flute, oboe, clarinet, baritone saxophone and bassoon, which perfectly complements our successful Solo Strings and Solo Brass Untamed.

Additional Information :
Pushing the boundaries of what you believe woodwinds can sound like, you’ll begin to want these instruments as the highlight of your music and not just a layer buried in the rest of the orchestra. Both elegant and beautiful or furious and turbulent.

The Improvisations are the life and soul behind each instrument. Not phrases, but performed notes with real human energy and movement.
Recorded at The Nave, one England’s finest recording studios; a church converted with the most beautiful sounding live room. Engineer Tom Orrell used a set of classic microphones and vintage outboard to tailor the perfect sound for the winds.

For the spot position, a single Brauner VMA Valve mic and RE20 mic does a great job of providing a very detailed, dry and hyped sound. Neumann KM184s capture a close stereo perspective; lively but still intimate. For the room position, we used a pair of AKG C414s, creating a more typical tree-style position and will give you a well balanced and open sound. Lastly, high up in the gallery were a pair of omnidirectional Oktava MK-12s. The secret weapon among engineers for their excellent detail, these will give you the full natural studio sound and allow you to hear the beautiful decay of The Nave.

We collected this really wide range of perspectives for you to mix exactly the sound you need. Everything was recorded through through Neve and API preamps, an AMEK Rembrandt desk and captured using world-class Apogee AD16X analogue to digital converters.



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