Interesting

[E D]

As a prospective user of VSL (pro Edition, hopefully) I'm browsing with great interest through the excellent VSL forums. Was just wondering, after reading posts about usage of reverbs, about the natural ambience the (VSL) orchestra was recorded with (or in?). I do seem to remember reading that you can actually controll the amount (and size) of that. True?

[Dietz]

Welcome & Thanks for your interest!

Quoting myself:

All our samples are recorded in a dedicated, purpose-built studio-environment, the "Silent Stage". This room was built with the goal to give orchestral instruments enough "air" to breathe, without adding too much of a reverb-tail. This gives us the opportunity to record extremely pure and pretty "dry" (a necessity for all our pioneering work with legato-and repetition-performances --- impossible with long reverb), but definetely _without_ going "close".

You may want to take a look at [URL=http://vsl.co.at/english/pages/profile/news/news_from_the_silent_stage.htm]those pictures[/URL], for example, to get an idea. More info about the 'Stage is [URL=http://vsl.co.at/english/pages/profile/creation/silent_stage.htm]here[/URL].

Greetings from Vienna,

/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library

[E D]

Thanks Dietz. Makes perfect sense! (what I read about controlling the ambience must have been about a different product,sorry)

[Dietz]

Not necessarily. What you may have heared of is the fact that our Instruments are extremely easy to integrate in very different acoustic settings - be it a "classical" orchestral hall, a small chamber-musical environment, a cathedral, an arena, a living-room .... you name it.

/Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library