After a long hiding, here we are with a new episode of The Right Sound. As a fair complement to the previous videos, this one tackles the problem of miking an entire brass section.
Recording an entire brass section, unless you have a multiple environment that is properly soundproofed, involves the necessary subdivision into individual recordings of the intended instruments. To help the recording phases, it can therefore become convenient to have a rhythmic - melodic structure to be entrusted to the shift workers who will alternate in the studio: this can be achieved with any DAW (Digital Aaudio Workstation) such as Cubase, Logic, Digital Performer, Sonar, ProTools, etc. given that a pre-production phase involves the MIDI drafting of the parts that will then be recorded with the real instruments.
In the studio, considering that we are talking about 2007 well in advance of what YouTube & C. offers today, we first operated with a MIDI DAW such as Cubase to then switch the virtual tracks in ProTools. Today, as already mentioned, everything can be achieved in a single operating environment.
Even the choice of microphones, Neuman U87 e TLM103, Sennheiser 421, becomes relative, given that in a hypothesis of Home Recording or Project Studio, the materials used may have other names and other brands.
The intent of these videos, therefore, in addition to giving a precise audio connotation, also wants to be an indication of standard procedures to allow newbies and audio production enthusiasts to have valid reference tools for the purposes of their work.
Thanks to RecoaStudio by Pasquale Faggiano and courtesy of RPM Edizioni, all of this is easily accessible.
Good vision to all!
Alfred Capozzi.
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