Originally Posted by oneiroer
Hi Shabby and Louai. Like your stuff! I'm taking a break from recording but practicing my instruments. Did you do the drums Louai?
Yeah. I found this great Orchestral soundfonts bank that has a ton of orchestral instruments, including orchestral percussion kit. Really, all I did was open it (it opens inside the piano roll) and after, or more like during, creating the beat, I panned each one. That is very important. And after that, they're really just all, not just them but all the instruments too, routed to the same bus, which only contains an EQ to remove some of the muddy 400Hz and a cathedral reverb. Then, it links to the Master compressor. Really, effects and compression and all these stuff should be minimal. I learned that the hard way. You really never understand this concept until you actively force yourself not to use EQ and compression and multiple reverbs except when absolutely necessary. It's mostly about the volume, stereo image, panning, and removing the bass from instruments that don't need it. Sure sometimes the high end needs cutting, or maybe a bit of boosting or compression to make it crisp, but these are never solutions to problems that already exist. All of this is of course in general. It's level depends on the genre too really. What I'm saying simply doesn't apply this much in genres like glitch or dubstep. But yeah, for orchestral, classic, acoustic, and a bunch of EDM, this approach really really saves me a ton of frustration and failure. I remember a year ago when I used to EQ everything, use a different reverb for each instrument, not even touch the levels or stereo really. Panning?! What's that? Is that a new type of pancakes?! xD
Speaking of too much effects...I love that guitar track, but you're killing it with the delay. It's even making the tune blurry.
Ramble.
Anyways, I finished a new track. I'm pretty happy about this one too. It's getting easier and easier with more hard work.
I must say though that one of the things I can't do is make a choir fit. It plays in the second last quarter and it's pretty muddy. I hear choirs and usually they are loud and clear. I need a better choir soundfont if anyone has.
Please, do tell me what you think. ^^
(I'm awful at making up titles.)
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