First of all: Hi! I am a few days away from recieving my First Edition Complete Orch Package, and I am currently sniffing around the forum in antissipation. You will most probably hear more from me [;)]
As I was listening to some recent hollywood scores (LordOfTheRings and Harry Potter) I noticed how much human noise there was during the soft passages. I am not talking about audience noise (that has been discussed here already) but just the subtil noises of a concentrated orchestra: Moving around on the chair, turning pages, heavy breathing etc.
I know that some of you will find it laughable to suggest to actually add noise to a track, but in my years of making music for commercials, I may have added (vinyl) noise to about a third of the mixes in order to make the track more believable. So to me adding noise is not a strange behavior if it suits a purpose. So, if I was to utterly convince a listener that he/she was hearing a real orchestra, a would not hessitate to add some human noises. If it was an A/B comparison of a real orch. and VSL playing a soft passage, the VSL would be easy to spot if it did not contain the human noises that the real orch would naturally have.
Has anybody here had similar thought and/or experiences?
And yes, this may be a strange first post, but somehow I sense that I can not be the only "strange" person in a forum like this [:)]
As I was listening to some recent hollywood scores (LordOfTheRings and Harry Potter) I noticed how much human noise there was during the soft passages. I am not talking about audience noise (that has been discussed here already) but just the subtil noises of a concentrated orchestra: Moving around on the chair, turning pages, heavy breathing etc.
I know that some of you will find it laughable to suggest to actually add noise to a track, but in my years of making music for commercials, I may have added (vinyl) noise to about a third of the mixes in order to make the track more believable. So to me adding noise is not a strange behavior if it suits a purpose. So, if I was to utterly convince a listener that he/she was hearing a real orchestra, a would not hessitate to add some human noises. If it was an A/B comparison of a real orch. and VSL playing a soft passage, the VSL would be easy to spot if it did not contain the human noises that the real orch would naturally have.
Has anybody here had similar thought and/or experiences?
And yes, this may be a strange first post, but somehow I sense that I can not be the only "strange" person in a forum like this [:)]