For some decades making a Adagio for Strings (Barber) mockup was on my bucket-list and for long string plugins just didn’t match up I experienced. Times have changed and I finally went for it combining BBCSO Pro strings and Appassionata Strings, both Spitfire Audio products. The performance of Leonard Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic string players is my all time favorite cause of it’s intens expression and dynamics. Did my best to ‘conduct’ my digital orchestra with this kinda passion also. I created my mockup using the 1936 original score, with divisé parts.
I used the following mic settings within Appassionata Strings:
Close Ribbon 35%
Tree 80%
Ambient 35%
Outriggers 80%
And these mic settings within BBCSO Pro:
Tree 85%
Outriggers 70%
Leaders 35%
Close Wide 45%
Sides 40%
These 9 mics I rendered seperately per instrument in Cubase Pro, so I got complete control over them in the mix. Leaving me up with 45 mic tracks. On violins 1, violins 2 and the violas I used EQ automation on all mics for low end roll-off, getting rid of the rumble specially in the high climax part.
This mockup stringorchestra is counting 70 players in total:
Violins 1 - 24 players (BBCSO 16 / Appassionata 8)
Violins 2 - 20 players (BBCSO 14 / Appassionata 6)
Violas - 18 players (BBCSO 12 / Appassionata 6)
Cellos - 16 players (BBCSO 10 / Appassionata 6)
Basses - 12 players (BBCSO 8 / Appassionata 4)
Insert chain for both Appassionata bus & BBCSO bus:
1. FabFilter EQ2 for little low end roll-off, mids pull and high end boost, around 1.5db
2. Manley Massive Passive EQ for character, warming the low end and little presence
3. Avalon VT-737 EQ for sophistication and charachter also.
All just a little touch.
Send chain for both Appassionata bus & BBCSO bus:
1. Scoring Stage - Liquid Sonics - Seventh Heaven - 2.20sec (-7db)
2. Amsterdam Classic Hall, FabFilter Pro-R - 3.30sec (-6db)
Mastering Inserts:
1.Fabfilter EQ2 Low end roll off around 20Hz
2. Fabfilter EQ2 Mids pull
3. Manley Massive Passive EQ for little 47hz and 16k boost
4. Avalon 747 EQ for a velvety blanket.
5. FabFilter Compressor -1.5db
6. FabFilter Limiter -11 LUFS
It took me around 50 hours from start to finish to create this mockup.
Where most of the time went into CC automation and tempo automation.
Art work by Caspar David Friedrich.
Be well,
Jeff Hijlkema
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