Hi,
Something that I can't make clear to myself, so I hope to get some hints from the makers and my user fellows.
Synchron libraries come already mixed and processed. Microphone volumes are set, each mic channel has its EQ and there is algorithmic reverb added.
When playing them, they are ready. They sound processed and finished.
But I'm one of those nerds who like to do their own mixes. So, I want to add my own effects to each instrument, and add mastering effects to the final mix.
So, here are my questions:
- EQ and fine-tuning for each mic channel should better be based on the internal effects of Synchron Player. They are very good, and there is no reason to use third-party effects of this type (corrective ones, for the most part). The settings premade by VSL are expertly crafted, and are a great starting point for one's own customization.
- I don't know if the reverb added to the final mix of each instrument should be considered part of the recording, or already an additional processing. I would say this latter, so would feel authorized to turn it off, it I prefer to only keep the room sound before my final mix.
- Instead of turning the included reverb off, I could want to replace it with my own reverb. For example, I might have a plate reverb simulator that I particularly like, and prefer to use that one. Not that it is really needed at this stage: the one included, derived from the Hybrid Reverb from the Vienna Suite, is already excellent and doing its job perfectly.
- Maybe I want to shape the sound of an instrument in a particular way. For example, instead of the ultra-clean mix offered by VSL, I might want my Violins to pass though some vintage mixer channel simulator, and make it sound as some movie soundtrack from the Fifties. Should the effects included in the instrument's preset be turned off? I already have the EQ, compressor and plate reverb from my vintage processor; shouldn't they integrally replace the effects VSL added to the microphone?
- I like to add MIRacle (or another reverb) to the final mix. Should I turn off the reverb added by VSL to the final mix of each instrument? Or, is the instrument's reverb (as I suspect) still needed to improve the sense of space and position that the microphone mix alone wouldn't emphasize enough? Sort of the old three-layer reverb, but as detailed as to be a different reverb for each instrument/section?
Paolo
