Symphonic Poem by me :)

[dvv89]

Hi guys, hear my new piece for orchestra, I used Dimension Brass and Special Edition... plz give me your opinions about it and how you think i can improve my orchestration and mixing... thank you very much :D:D:D https://soundcloud.com/diego-mac-vela/poema-sinfonico-diego-vela

[Beat Kaufmann]

Hi Diego?

About your music

I like your music and your composing style very very much!!!

And also: The samples give us a nice impression of how it could sound with a real orchestrra. Bravo bravo.

About the mix

In one way you did a very very good job: You panned all the instruments so well that one can nicely recognize really all of them. That's a bravo once more!

Nevertheless that's not the way we are used to have mixes with classical orchestras. I know nothing about your abilities in mixing such big orchetra projects but you need to know:

Your current mix has a big potential to come much more closer to a real orchestra session than it currently appears.

Unfortunately your mix will not sound the way it should after some single tipps because it will be a matter of creating depths, treating each instrument (depending on its depth and placement on the stage), it will also be a matter of narrowing each instrument in its stereo width and and and...

If you want to go into this field of work it would be probably the best to find a mixer who mixes your piece in the same DAW you use yourself.

After that you will be able to open the mixed project in your daw for learning how to do such mixes.

Mixing orchestras is an art and a question of collected experiences over years. That's why VSL offers MIR. Even if MIR is a nice tool, it has its disadvantages as well. And for keeping them away you need to be a professional as well... So you see it will not be done in one night.

Nevertheless one main tipp:

Beside panning instruments you should work with several depths so that the strings acoustically seem do be in front of the woodwinds, those in front of the percussion instruments and the brass etc.

There are some instruments farther away in your mix (the harp for example) but it seems to be more a pure chance... and the harp appears too much in stereo by the way... instruments which are sounding acoustically far away appear more or less in mono...

Compare your mix with these examples for getting what I whant to say about different depths:

Real recording of mine in September2014 (observe the different distances/depths)

You also can get this by mixing samples:

Example 1, Example 2 (youtube you see the depths I tried to achieve),

All the best and a lot of success

Beat