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How to use the mics in Abbey Road ONE - advice from Simon Rhodes

Hello Paul,

Great video!!!

Disregarding the title of your video, why not just draw the pitch changes in the DAW and not inside Kontakt?

Also, my dream is that in the future you will actually record numerous useful pitch changes so as to better the sound, as post effect, pitch shift only goes so far, and I love certain Penderecki music. :)

Thanks,
Martin

So you can perform them in real time! More like an instrument.

Nice ideas!
 
One of my friends just posted this quote and I really loved it. Wanted to share. It’s Kurt Vonnegut

“When I was 15, I spent a month working on an archeological dig. I was talking to one of the archeologists one day during our lunch break and he asked those kinds of ‘getting to know you,’ questions you ask young people: Do you play sports? What’s your favorite subject? And I told him, no I don’t play any sports. I do theater, I’m in choir, I play the violin and piano, I used to take art classes.
And he went WOW. That’s amazing! And I said, ‘
‘Oh no, but I’m not any good at ANY of them.”
And he said something then that I will never forget and which absolutely blew my mind because no one had ever said anything like it to me before: ‘ I don’t think being good at things is the point of doing them. I think you’ve got all these wonderful experiences with different skills, and that all teaches you things and makes you an interesting person, no matter how well you do them.’
And that honestly changed my life. Because I went from a failure, someone who hadn’t been talented enough at anything to excel, to someone who did things because I enjoyed them. I had been raised in such an achievement-oriented environment, so inundated with the myth of Talent, that I thought it was only worth doing things if you could ‘Win’ at them.”
Kurt Vonnegut
 
Very informative, not only for this specific library, but on microphones and combinations in general. Thanks!

Are there many real recordings using the decca tree #2 (= the more cardioid one)? Is it just a matter of taste when you go for this? I think in "Hollywood" productions the omni one is omnipresent. ;)
 
This was very helpful, Paul. You are a good teacher. Would it be possible to do the same for BBCSO professional based on Jack’s advice. I know that there is a video on the mics but the focus on that one is different.
 
good idea! Will do
I had no idea your background in organ playing. How special!!! Makes both Spitfire organs even more special now that I know this about you. Really love Spitfire libraries and both the Union Chapel Organ and Symphonic Organ!!! Loved hearing you play the organ in the video, Paul!!!
 
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