Some of you may remember a mockup I shared about a year ago from How To Train Your Dragon that used only products from EastWest's Composer Cloud.
It wasn't without its faults, but overall I thought it was quite impressive and demonstrated the unbeatable bang-for-buck value of CC.
While HTTYD showed off a bombastic and 'produced' sound, I thought I'd try something completely different and see how EWHO handles a softer, slower, more natural and dynamic production. And with the release of Hollywood Choirs, I thought Hymn To The Fallen by John Williams would be appropriate.
I do believe HO's strengths lie in the more bombastic writing styles, but again I was very impressed with how much you can achieve with this, especially since there is only one mic position. Though perhaps not perfect, i like to think it's perfectly adequate for the purposes of a mockup.
Nevertheless... I do look forward to replacing much of HWB with CSB.
The mockup starts from the brass chorale (about 2 minutes into the original recording)
If listening at loud volumes, you might hear quite a bit of noise/hiss. What do you think of this? Too much? Do you like it?
To me it was one of those annoying balancing acts, where it's too soft when listening at low volumes, and too loud when pumping up the volume. To me though, this piece is meant to be listened to at low(ish) volumes, so i tried to cater for that. (pretty poor excuse for a lack in production skills if you ask me)
It wasn't without its faults, but overall I thought it was quite impressive and demonstrated the unbeatable bang-for-buck value of CC.
While HTTYD showed off a bombastic and 'produced' sound, I thought I'd try something completely different and see how EWHO handles a softer, slower, more natural and dynamic production. And with the release of Hollywood Choirs, I thought Hymn To The Fallen by John Williams would be appropriate.
I do believe HO's strengths lie in the more bombastic writing styles, but again I was very impressed with how much you can achieve with this, especially since there is only one mic position. Though perhaps not perfect, i like to think it's perfectly adequate for the purposes of a mockup.
Nevertheless... I do look forward to replacing much of HWB with CSB.
The mockup starts from the brass chorale (about 2 minutes into the original recording)
If listening at loud volumes, you might hear quite a bit of noise/hiss. What do you think of this? Too much? Do you like it?
To me it was one of those annoying balancing acts, where it's too soft when listening at low volumes, and too loud when pumping up the volume. To me though, this piece is meant to be listened to at low(ish) volumes, so i tried to cater for that. (pretty poor excuse for a lack in production skills if you ask me)
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