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Silent Night revised

Post by remmet » Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:32 am

Well, I made several changes in the orchestration and recorded a live trumpet player as well. (It's amazing how loud a trumpet can be in your living room.)Anyway, I hope it sounds better than the original version.www.richardemmet.com/SilentNight.mp3Richard

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Re: Silent Night revision

Post by silvercord » Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:51 am

hey Richard nothing like live brass!why do i feel chilly and peaceful at the same time;)?trumpets sound sweet~ 'specially the last phrase!

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Re: Silent Night revised

Post by georginasaint » Sun Nov 02, 2008 2:05 pm

Hey Remmet, this is just gorgeous! Your strings sound FAB - are you sure you didn't pull in the whole NY Phil ...? They sound very real to me. What are you using?Well, I will have to try that too - did you just find a trumpet player hanging around on a street corner??? Takes me months to organize to get a live player... Hats off to you! Hope you get a deal with this - it's deserving!Georgie

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Re: Silent Night revised

Post by remmet » Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:08 pm

Nov 2, 2008, 4:05pm, georginasaint wrote:Hey Remmet, this is just gorgeous! Your strings sound FAB - are you sure you didn't pull in the whole NY Phil ...? They sound very real to me. What are you using?Well, I will have to try that too - did you just find a trumpet player hanging around on a street corner??? Takes me months to organize to get a live player... Hats off to you! Hope you get a deal with this - it's deserving!GeorgieThanks Geoff and Georgie,I'm lucky to know a good trumpet player (Lewis Livermore is his name) who lives nearby. I called him on Friday and he came over on Saturday afternoon. The first 7 notes of his melody were played on flugelhorn, the last 7 notes on trumpet. I'm realizing that it's a challenge to record a live player in your living room and make it fit with the ambience of the sampled orchestra. I used a long and thick reverb from Reaktor on the trumpet, but I'm not 100% satisfied that the blending is perfect. Maybe a convolution reverb would work better, but I don't have one at this point.The strings (and the rest of the sampled orchestra) are from EWQLSO Platinum XP-Pro.Richard

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Re: Silent Night revised

Post by kitz » Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:15 pm

Really wonderful arrangement!!! The only things I could suggest are to put a little vibrato on the flutes and bring out the chime in that section.Beautiful job!!Kitz

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Re: Silent Night revised

Post by regulator » Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:04 am

way - way better sirlive musicians - always betteryou invested, this will go the distance

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Re: Silent Night revised

Post by brindabella » Mon Nov 03, 2008 2:13 pm

Richard, this sounds Beeyoootiful! Congratz!
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Re: Silent Night revised

Post by remmet » Mon Nov 03, 2008 9:29 pm

I revised it once more, this time to help prepare the trumpet entrance and to fix or add a couple of other small details. Maybe I should title this "Endless Night" instead of Silent Night. Same link.Richard

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Re: Silent Night revised

Post by jamesm » Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:23 pm

Very nice! Lovely, really, and classy. Nice, nice work. James

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Re: Silent Night revised

Post by jwebbinspired » Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:57 am

Richard, This was really, really great. My wife heard it and is breaking out all her Christmas music now. Andy

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