audio mixing question

Rothchild


Orchestras have huge dynamic range (just imagine you could go from solo piccolo to everyone smashing away FF, kettle drums, Euphoniums the lot).

Bear in mind that compressors limit dynamic range and the whole point of an orchestra is that their range is huge (and going from quiet to loud is exciting!), why limit it? (and particluarly if you don't know what you're doing with one). My understanding is that the people who record orchestras try to capture as much of the dynamics as possible and are unlikely to use compression for this type of recording.

You question is a little unclear, do you have a recording of an orchestra or a midi arrangement of one? If it's the latter you're going to have to pay a lot of attention to detail, picking a suitable verb / ambience etc voicings and panning to make a good sounding fake.

Child


Realized using Philharmonik vst. When set volume to hear the pianissimo the double forte is way too loud on my regular system. (scares the cat, wife starts yelling) Also kind of muddy but it sounds ok over monitor speakers (M-Audio BX5a). Regular (surround sound) is paradigm Phantom v.3. My own composition. Guess I will ding around with it some more. I got it to sound just dandy with the monitors and ear phones then disappointing when put to cd and played on the tv room system. Back to the drawing board.
John