Spaghetti Western Music

Описание: This town ain't big enough for the both of us..

Borrowed a mint condition Roland RE-150 Space Echo (1979) and I thought I'd mix things up by doing something that isn't synthesizer-based (although one synth snuck in there).

I also haven't done any virtual orchestra stuff in a while, so have brought that back big time in this one. If you followed my channel early on I did a fair few experiments with this kind of thing.

To my ears the 70s orchestral recordings are often mono sources that are panned around to make a stereo image, rather than stereo sectional sounds. To emulate this, I put each instrument in mono and panned them quite hard (e.g. cello is on the right with violin 2, viola and violin 1 are left).

I also used just the close mics and then put a plate reverb on them, rather than using any ambient or room mics. This also sounds closer to the vibe in my mind.

There's a gradual build-up of tape and vinyl emulation with plugins on the groups, mix bus and mastering. I did a video "My Big Fat Guide to using a Virtual Orchestra" last year that went into this in quite a lot of detail if you want to go into it further.

With the guitars and bass I actually ran everything through the RE-150 and even did the distortion by overloading the pre-amp on it, which I thought sounded really cool.

Sounds:
Dan Electro Baritone
Ibanez JEM 7DBK
Fender Jazz Bass
Roland SH-5
Ibanez Tube Screamer TS-808
Roland RE-150
Orange OB1-300
DBX 266XL

Alvarez Baritone Acoustic
Besson Classical Guitar
Rode NT1000

Spitfire Audio Chamber Strings
Spitfire Audio Symphonic Woodwinds
Spitfire Audio Albion
Spitfire Audio Joby Burgess Percussion
Spitfire Labs Cimbalom
Orchestral Tools Metropolis Ark 3
Orchestral Tools Berlin Strings EXP
Orchestral Tools Strings Runs
Orchestral Tools Symphonic Sphere
GForce MTron Pro
Cinebrass Pro and Core
8dio Requiem
Abbey Road 70s Drums
Optigan Soundware

DAW: Cubase 9.5
Interface: Soundcraft 22 MTK
Plugins: U-He Satin, Goodhertz Vulf Compressor, Izotope Vinyl, Waves Abbey Road Vinyl, Waves compressors and EQs, PastToFuture reverbs, T-racks mastering.

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