New Brass for Seduction!
Hot on the heels of kicking some new brass into Worship, Danny (from NewYorkBrass.com) kept the hammer down and recorded live tracks for Seduction. I decided to remix Seduction first… This may still require some additional work after I enlist the feedback of some professional ears – before re-mastering.
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Danny delivered a total of 9 tracks (dry): 3 sax of which 1 is the lead/solo, 3 trumpets, and 3 trombones – a full blown horn section (no pun intended)! It took some time to get these dialed-in as I was aiming to apply the least amount of processing. I originally routed the tracks to my outboard HEDD 192 and Bricasti M7 (reverb), but had better luck using plug-ins. I ended up dealing with the lead/solo sax on its own employing the Waves API-550B EQ and IR-1 (Hall) reverb. I created group tracks for the remaining sax, trumpets, and bones, respectively; and applied the same EQ, but with different settings for each instrument. I tried to minimize the verb on the trumpets and bones, and decided not to use any compression – we’ll see if that holds.
Oh… YES, I am working on a new tune, and do LIKE where it’s going. I’ve been recently inspired to inject some latin vibe into my work, but as a result, the rhythm is a bit tricky. I may end up having the drum track pre-recorded and write to the completed track vs. the other way around… because for once, I actually know what I’m looking for!
August 9th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Well maybe a we little bit compression on the brass to bring out the attacks 5-10msec attack and 1.5-2 ratio. The tracks were not recorded with compression. try the guitar trick of finding the annoying frequencies and eq them out. In brass many time its the fundamentals at 500Hz and bring out the crisp sound 5Khz, and add air at 15Khz.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Thanks for the feedback Danny! As suggested, added some compression and (hopefully) the slight timing problems you also noted. Let me know how this pass sounds?
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