Building orchestral horns section
Hi.
I've purchased the entire SampleModeling brass section (trumpets, tromb's, sax's etc.), and I find it highly natural and playable as solo instruments.
However, when I try to build an orchestral section using the horn, I get a synthetic metallic sound in compare with EWQL horns samples or VSL.
I use 4 midi channels: Horn 1,2,3 and 1 again. Each was recorded separately to achieve a human feeling (using an expression pedal!).
But the 4 channels just sound not convincing. Too metallic. They just don't have the sound and feeling of 4 horns.
Am I doing something wrong?
Any good tip to build a horns section using the Horn?
Thanks,
Assaf.
I've purchased the entire SampleModeling brass section (trumpets, tromb's, sax's etc.), and I find it highly natural and playable as solo instruments.
However, when I try to build an orchestral section using the horn, I get a synthetic metallic sound in compare with EWQL horns samples or VSL.
I use 4 midi channels: Horn 1,2,3 and 1 again. Each was recorded separately to achieve a human feeling (using an expression pedal!).
But the 4 channels just sound not convincing. Too metallic. They just don't have the sound and feeling of 4 horns.
Am I doing something wrong?
Any good tip to build a horns section using the Horn?
Thanks,
Assaf.
Comments
1. don't push the horns too hard. Turn up the volume and turn down the cc11
2. use a little compression to even things out, since being next to a horn is different than hearing them at the back of the stage
3. layer in your EWQL horns on top of the SM horns, especially using the hall / ambient mics. The SM horns can be like your "close mics".
4. EQ off a little high end from the SM horns, but they don't need much. Also EQ off the low end so that the fundamental frequencies don't build up