This blog post contains a great technique that SO MANY top Library composers use. And you can apply it too. As you may know, I’m personally not a huge fan of composers buying every sample library under the sun. Yes, keep your samples relevant and of the highest quality you can afford, but you’re at …
There’s an affliction that affects a lot of us composers, music producers and musicians: buying more gear. For many of us, this takes the form of new plug-ins and samples for our DAW’s, be it a new string library, reverb or EQ plug-in. For others, it may be a new guitar, or additional microphones. Should …
Samples these days are pretty amazing. Over the last few decades we’ve seen huge advances in this area. It used to be that samples were used to create “mock ups” within film and TV soundtracks so that directors could hear what the piece would sound like before the track was recorded by an orchestra. The …
Drums and Percussion are often a pivotal, driving force underpinning modern day soundtracks, especially within epic orchestral music, action sequences or tracks created for sports applications. If you’re looking for ways to make your Percussion samples sound bigger and fuller for your soundtrack piece, but when you layer them up things often get cluttered quite …