shawnsingh
Senior Member
A major weak point of my dry-orchestral-library mixes was the lack of 3D depth, missing a lot of early reflection information. This is why I preferred wet or studio-dry libraries these days, but lately I've been missing the flexibility and expressive nuances possible from dry libraries. So I was thinking of trying again and revisiting how I could better mix them.
Here's a bunch of questions:
For generating/emulating/mixing early reflections - what have you tried, and what did you feel works well?
Any tips about how you combine early reflection simulations with EQ and with long-tail reverbs?
I know in various threads people have given positive mention to Virtual Sound Stage 2 and EAReverb 2. Do you all use them for your dry libraries? what do you feel are their strengths and limitations?
And lastly, the Altiverb TODD AO room seemed to be an open trade secret for dry libraries 10 years ago. Is that still a thing? Any other IR sets that can achieve different early reflections for individual instruments across the stage?
Here's a bunch of questions:
For generating/emulating/mixing early reflections - what have you tried, and what did you feel works well?
Any tips about how you combine early reflection simulations with EQ and with long-tail reverbs?
I know in various threads people have given positive mention to Virtual Sound Stage 2 and EAReverb 2. Do you all use them for your dry libraries? what do you feel are their strengths and limitations?
And lastly, the Altiverb TODD AO room seemed to be an open trade secret for dry libraries 10 years ago. Is that still a thing? Any other IR sets that can achieve different early reflections for individual instruments across the stage?