Favorite non-orchestral brass library?

[rnrmachine]

One more to add...
I got a good mileage from Sony'sJazz Solos & Sections sample/loop CD from their Classic collection.

It helped me get an honorable mention in Billboard's World Song Contest for "Return To Wonderland" (can be heard on http://www.taxi.com/georgesolo

Cheers,
George

That was cool!

[ckbarlow]

OK, I'm not going to tell you what horns I used on this -- here's the first song of the project in question:

http://www.ckbarlow.com/Warrior/MeanToMe.mp3

whaddy'all think?

[AndyKotz]

Cool... very authentic sounding.

It sounds like you may have purchased something already but I was going to mention the Garritan "Jazz And Big Band" (or JABB for short http://www.garritan.com/index.php?optio ... &Itemid=56)... great and very affordable ($150) horn sample library (non- orchestral). It comes with the Kontakt Sampler too. I love it.

If you're curious to hear it what I did with it, go here: http://www.taximusic.com/hosting/home.php?userid=me,
and listen to the song "East Garrison Avenue"...

CK... your piece works nicely though, it conveys the period of that style of music. -- Andy

[mojobone]

OK, I'm not going to tell you what horns I used on this -- here's the first song of the project in question:

http://www.ckbarlow.com/Warrior/MeanToMe.mp3

whaddy'all think?

The song is awesome, and dead on target, if the target's "You Really Got A Hold On Me", but I hear a couple of problems. (don't I always?) I'm not in love with the horn samples, but they're not too prominent in the mix; try adding a Bari sax line to the 'bottom rung' The vocal sibilance is takin' my head off, and there's some digititis that'll need to be dealt with (the lead vocal on the last couple of 'mean to me's sounds especially gritty) and the reverb's way bright for the period; find something soupier or roll off some highs going into the reverb. Very well written and performed!

[ckbarlow]

Thanks! All easy to deal with.

Singer is Kevin "Kookie" Jones of ABQ band Aladocious. I'm on backups and everything else, and wrote it.

How many comments still hold true if I'm going ultimately for "crappy radio" sound? I'll do some more A-Bs with the ref track tonight.

[Len911]

Great job ck, I agree it's definitely on target, and I am quite amazed that you wrote it, very authentic!! I thought it was a cover song at first. Crappy radio sound? That's definitely a job for speakerphone. I agree with Mojobone about the horns, I couldn't really hear them very well.

[ckbarlow]

Great job ck, I agree it's definitely on target, and I am quite amazed that you wrote it, very authentic!! I thought it was a cover song at first.

You are very kind. The film writer/director is a massive fan of that genre, and her movie is largely autobiographical - so it is what the lead character listens to, period. Plus she's a dear friend, so I'm pretty invested in doing a slamming job.

[ckbarlow]

This is great. Keep the suggestions coming and I will tweak it tonight. I can't promise that the brass will come up in the mix; I'm not sure they would tolerate much more scrutiny. But I'll try.

[mazz]

The writing is right on stylistically. Your compressor setting is making the vocals push everything into the background, just back off on the compressor a bit. You'll still get that uncalibrated AM radio small town compressor sound, but it won't make the whole mix "pump" as much as it does right now.

Great stuff, as I would expect from you! Fun!

Mazz

[rnrmachine]

That was awesome, great job!!!