ReAmp is free to all customers who have made a paid purchase at Stratisound.com. As the name implies, ReAmp is re-amped library of the highest quality programmed for Native Instrument’s Free Kontakt Player, and recorded at the world-famous “Culver City Scoring Stage” (its actual proper name withheld for Copyright reasons). ReAmping is a recording technique where you take an audio source, usually one that is computer generated or has been recorded in a small space and broadcast it into a live room, preferably a large and great-sounding space. You then re-record the signal of that broadcast just like you would any live musician in the space, with the idea being it will sound much more natural and “blendy” than any reverb ever could. In this instance, we re-recorded the signal with three pairs of stereo microphones (DPA 4011s, Sennheiser MKH 800’s and Schoeps MK2’s). It is a high-end technique that has been used by many artists, possibly non more famous than Michael Jackson. Here is an interview where Jackson’s recording engineer, Bruce Swedien, talks about the technique in detail. The “Historic Culver City Scoring Stage” is one of the best-sounding rooms in the United States and is particularly well suited for ReAmping due to its neutral and dense sonic characteristics.
Walk Through Video
Recently, we headed to the studio armed with a series of new synth patches created by master synthesist Matt Bowlder of unfinished.co.uk. Matt created a series of patches that would be especially useful to the cinematic orchestral composer. We were particularly interested in patches that could be used to enhance and fatten some of the most common elements of cinematic orchestration. For example, our Brass Sustain patch works very well when layered on top of medium dynamic brass chords, and of course, it sounds extremely convincing by itself. When re-amping synths, one very effective trick is to mix in a bit of the dry signal into the newly recorded wet signal. Thus, all the patches ship with the original source material, which can be mixed into the wet signal via the use of a midi fader. Three keyboard-style patches are also included: an Asian Harp (koto), a harpsichord, and Kevin’s bells. Kevin’s Bells are meant to be a recreation of Emu’s famous “Christmas Bells” patch which found usage in many scores in the 90’s including Home Alone.For harpsichord, John Williams prefers a synth instrument re-amped into the studio, and we did that here with our Harpsichord patch. A koto, or Asian harp, seemed especially useful so we included it as well. In addition, three utility patches are included: a sin wave and pink and white noise. White and Pink noise can be added to percussive instruments for some extra body and complexity. The sin wave patch is the collection's gem and can be added underneath any sample patch for some added warmth and solidity.
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