16-12-2012, 04:27 AM
On first listen I thought these tracks sounded pretty good with the faders at zero and nothing else done to them. But there’s little to learn in doing that so I read Mike Senior’s March 2012 article and tried using some of the techniques he described. I’ve included my reverb notes as an attachment. Here are the main things I did:
Added short (.65 second) reverb to all tracks even though there’s already reverb on most tracks. This reverb has early reflections.
Added long (2.75 seconds) reverb to all tracks with reverb less than 2 seconds. This reverb has no early reflections.
Split track 14 and put long reverb only on the first part.
Used gating on the bass drum and tympani tracks to reduce their extremely long reverb.
Split track 1 (bass drum) and rotated the second part so the bass drum would be centered throughout.
Rotated the tuba (#23) more to the left so it matches the tuba in #21.
Nudged the initial French horn (#25) line left to better line up with the strings.
I wanted to replace some of the bass and oboe sounds but didn’t have anything that sounded better than the original.
Added short (.65 second) reverb to all tracks even though there’s already reverb on most tracks. This reverb has early reflections.
Added long (2.75 seconds) reverb to all tracks with reverb less than 2 seconds. This reverb has no early reflections.
Split track 14 and put long reverb only on the first part.
Used gating on the bass drum and tympani tracks to reduce their extremely long reverb.
Split track 1 (bass drum) and rotated the second part so the bass drum would be centered throughout.
Rotated the tuba (#23) more to the left so it matches the tuba in #21.
Nudged the initial French horn (#25) line left to better line up with the strings.
I wanted to replace some of the bass and oboe sounds but didn’t have anything that sounded better than the original.