@LAJ said:

Wanna have it. Wanne play the new tubas!!!

There's no real Tuba in the Dimension Brass II, it's Wagner Tubas wich is closer to a french horn than a Tuba. 

But the muted Brass and wagner tubas are great additions anyway.

Can't wait to hear some demos.

Interesting....

Guy Bacos' demos are once again impressive. A very good first impression of the library.

I find the selection/assortment of instruments peculiar, though. Having the mutes in there as the second installment of the library is consistent with the rest of the catalogue. However, I'm not aware of any other library that offers a4 Wagner Tubas and I can imagine that as a separate library, they would interest users who don't necessarily need standard muted brass to go with it.

Some demos of the muted brass would be helpful to evaluate Dim-Brass II. 

Thanks,

Muziksculp 

VSL

Will the french horn samples also have stopped samples?

Regards

Mirabile

@mirabile said:

VSL Will the french horn samples also have stopped samples? Regards Mirabile

I am hoping for Dim Brass I extended......

@icecubeman said:

I am hoping for Dim Brass I extended......

+1  

Yes, surely Dim-Brass I(  (Extended) is something we have been waiting for for a very long time.

I wonder when that's going to be released ?  

Still no audio demos of the muted brass instruments in Dim-Brass II  ?  

What's happening ?  Where are the demos ?   

@LAJ said:

Not right ... The Trombones are muted (3rd Demo)

Would you buy it based on just hearing some muted Trombones ?  What about the rest of the muted instruments ? 

Surely, there needs to be more demos to better evaluate Dim-Brass II .

So..  Hopefully some more demos are in the making that showcase the muted brass instruments in Dim-Brass II.

Thanks,

Muziksculp 

Yes, was in the works. ;) 

You could check out "Turns" for muted trumpets.

https://vsl.co.at/en/Brass_Bundle/Vienna_Dimension_Brass_2

@Guy Bacos said:

Yes, was in the works. 😉 

You could check out "Turns" for muted trumpets.

https://vsl.co.at/en/Brass_Bundle/Vienna_Dimension_Brass_2

Phantastic demos, Guy. What did you use for spatial positioning (any VSL software in there)?

Thanks Goran ;) 

I don't have the project opened in front of me, but I used the Grosser Sall Stage, (Conductor), Dry/wet offset at -30%, MIRacle3.6s Gr. Saal set at 20dB wet. For this piece, in MIR, I preferred to have the strings more in arc shape of 2 rows and not too close from the coductor, each string section overlap a bit with each other, the muted trumpets are in the center closer to the back, the rest is scattered in the rest of the spots. I used the VSL compressor for each instrument, but for the strings I'd use the dimension strings compressing for the general section: One for violins, one for violas etc  A bit of exciter here and there, at the output a general VSL compressor "Modern clear Master" in this case, although it tends to be a bit too much sometimes so I brought down the volume before that a bit. A bit of VSL Master Equalizer and I think that's about it. I told you what I did, but honestly I don't think it's an area I'm good at, I just can't find the time to work at this more, but I can get by at least. 

Thanks for the detailed information, Guy. To my ears, these sound excellent not just in terms of performance shaping but spatial positioning and (for the very most part) overall mix as well, so I do think you are being far too modest ;-)

Apart from the brass, I also very much like the way the strings sound (especially in Turns, which turned out to be not just a phenomenal DB II demo piece, but one of the best sounding DS demo pieces as well imo) 

Your mention of the use of compressor on all instruments caught my attention: was the purpose of this having a tighter overall dynamic range for each instrument or something else? 

@goran_tsch said:

[...] Your mention of the use of compressor on all instruments caught my attention: was the purpose of this having a tighter overall dynamic range for each instrument or something else?

If I'm allowed to chime in here: I assume that over and all Guy likes the additional "glue" that a bit of compression can add to the performance of sampled instruments. Using comparatively low thresholds, ratios of 1:1.2 or 1.5 with just a few dB of gain reduction every now and then is all that's needed, most of the time. ... and if you're using Vienna Suite's Compressor, the optional "FAT" will add some warm, glowing saturation, too - especially nice on solo instruments! 😊

Hi Dietz,

ok, thanks for sharing this - I'll try this method out on some solo parts ;-)