brass.....I love it

[LSD-Studio]

fucking hell....virtual instruments are good these days, but it's such a difference still to the real thing.

I've just finished recording brass for the new Alestorm and everytime I'm recording brass I'm thinking "damn, real brass sounds so much much better than a vsti ever could"..

loving it!

 

[Metaltastic]

Haha, damn dude, what instruments did you have, and how'd you get the session players?

Check out this promo pic (tiny though it may be) of my Dad, btw

 

[LSD-Studio]

it's the brass-section from the music-university Luebeck....got the fiddleplayer from there as well.

they're playing in a band called "die Fischer" (www.diefischerband.de) which I recorded, mixed, mastered for very cheap ...so they they owe me a favor in return.

you'll have PM in a couple of mins

 

[Aaron Smith]

Hey Lasse, have you heard the recent EastWest Symphonic Orchestra stuff? Those brass sections sound good.

 

[LSD-Studio]

Hey Lasse, have you heard the recent EastWest Symphonic Orchestra stuff? Those brass sections sound good.

yup....used them on the last EP....still, the real stuff is WAY punchier.

 

[KeithTidd]

hey Lasse, what mics are you using on the horns you record? Lately i've been recording some brass and i've been a bit underwhelmed with how my trombones have sounded. They lack alot of low end when i mic them.

 

[LydonB]

Last time I recorded a brass ensemble I used a blumlein with two KSM44's. The imaging on it kicks ass. Too bad the ensemble can't play better. haha

 

[LSD-Studio]

depends, for metal I usually only closemic....preferring the sm7 for trombones.
make sure to not aim into the funnel but at the side of it to get the lowend gnarl.

414 is ok too, I preferred the sm7 though...sometimes in combiation with a ribbon

 

[seditz740novaprospect]

yup....used them on the last EP....still, the real stuff is WAY punchier.

i was just gonna ask that question, i know some brass players i could pay and get a pretty decent library built up instead of the money from ew i got all the triton, fantom etc.. and im not happy

 

[LydonB]

depends, for metal I usually only closemic....preferring the sm7 for trombones.
make sure to not aim into the funnel but at the side of it to get the lowend gnarl.

414 is ok too, I preferred the sm7 though...sometimes in combiation with a ribbon

Royer 121 on brass = awesome

 

[RockGuitarX]

Fuck dude I played Tuba in band for 6 years making region 6 years in a row! I love that shit... not very metal but brass kicks ass!

 

[Metaltastic]

Actually, brass is QUITE metal, thank you very much (get it? GET IT!?!!?!?!? HARDIE HAR HAR!!! uke: ) - and I played tuba for like 11 years, BAM

 

[Sloan]

My first instrument was trombone, but I don't remember any of that shit.


MOTOWN PRO TIP:
I once read that they often had the horn players face a wall and recorded that way instead of having them play directly at the mic.

 

[felipe-x]

Hey Lasse, have you heard the recent EastWest Symphonic Orchestra stuff? Those brass sections sound good.

i bought east west choir, percussion and colossus they are freaking awesome you can do some real shit with those

 

[ParsonsMatt]

yup....used them on the last EP....still, the real stuff is WAY punchier.

Delightful! I thought the brass on that sounded great, very realistic. Makes me feel good about EWQLSO.

 

[Felix Neumann]

fucking hell....virtual instruments are good these days, but it's such a difference still to the real thing.

I've just finished recording brass for the new Alestorm and everytime I'm recording brass I'm thinking "damn, real brass sounds so much much better than a vsti ever could"..

loving it!

+1000

I know, what you mean.

I´m very in real strings..my family and some friends of mine play violine or cello as a professional and I often have the ability to record real strings. The contrast between vst silver edition and real instruments is enormous, (especially for string musicians it´s nearly unbearable). Lasse, for example..my sister don´t like the outro of my song "gunman´s poem" You know, what I mean. She would like to play some violine tracks over this vst stuff..(that´s a technique, I often use). The combination of both. But she´s in Thailand, so that´s unfortunately not possible.

 

[LSD-Studio]

ha, just recorded bagpipes....fucking hell, this is making me cum already!

 

[RockGuitarX]

Actually, brass is QUITE metal, thank you very much (get it? GET IT!?!!?!?!? HARDIE HAR HAR!!! uke: ) - and I played tuba for like 11 years, BAM

Damn that's bad ass man! The instrument usually gets a shitty reputation for walking bass lines or whole notes but man, you can tear that instrument up with some soloing skills

 

[Felix Neumann]

ha, just recorded bagpipes....fucking hell, this is making me cum already!

Whaz kind of microphones did you use, man ? Sounds interesting. I would like to record a pipe organ in a church playin´"raining blood" or something

 

[LSD-Studio]

Whaz kind of microphones did you use, man ? Sounds interesting. I would like to record a pipe organ in a church playin´"raining blood" or something

combination of c414 and km184