I am VERY new to mixing and mastering and making all of that sound good and everything. My question is about panning. I have Altiverb 5 and they claim that with their "Stage Positions" feature (where you move the little speaker around) that that is all the panning you will have to do. I have seen the example online of Maarten Spruijt's peace panned only using Altiverb, with an instance without rendering the "tail" for every instrument.
In my orchestral template, I have about 23 instruments, including solo instruments each on their own channel. It wouldn't be possible for me to run 23 Altiverbs to pan each instrument. Currently I have all 23 instruments bussed to 5 group channels, one for each section of the orchestra: Woodwinds, brass, violin, viola_cello_dbass, and percussion. I have an instance of Altiverb without the Tail on each of these channels, and I can run all 5, plus a master Altiverb WITH Tail without breaking the CPU bank.
Currently I am panning each instrument in its own channel with Waves S1 Imager, and also using the Altiverb instance on each instrument group, panning the little Speaker to the general area where the instruments would sit.
My question is, am I doing anything wierd to my stereo image that I don't know about. Is it better to pan using only 5 Altiverb instances (I feel like that is not enough to have much panning control) or should I leave that alone and use only the Waves S1, or should I continue to do what I'm doing, mixing both?
My main goal is simply to get a good sounding mix. I'm not necessarily trying to emulate a recording of a Concert Hall Orchestra, as I'm mixing music Score for television. I know that mixing is as creative as any other aspect of music production, but I also know there are such things as good mixes and bad mixes. I would just like some pointers to get me closer to a "good mix".
Also, is it a stupid idea to place a Waves S1 imager on my master bus, to widen the stereo image at the very end of the pipe. I sort of favor the sound of a wider image, but is this a bad idea or is this gonna mess me up somewhere down the line, especially if I'm mixing for TV?
Thanks a bunch.
In my orchestral template, I have about 23 instruments, including solo instruments each on their own channel. It wouldn't be possible for me to run 23 Altiverbs to pan each instrument. Currently I have all 23 instruments bussed to 5 group channels, one for each section of the orchestra: Woodwinds, brass, violin, viola_cello_dbass, and percussion. I have an instance of Altiverb without the Tail on each of these channels, and I can run all 5, plus a master Altiverb WITH Tail without breaking the CPU bank.
Currently I am panning each instrument in its own channel with Waves S1 Imager, and also using the Altiverb instance on each instrument group, panning the little Speaker to the general area where the instruments would sit.
My question is, am I doing anything wierd to my stereo image that I don't know about. Is it better to pan using only 5 Altiverb instances (I feel like that is not enough to have much panning control) or should I leave that alone and use only the Waves S1, or should I continue to do what I'm doing, mixing both?
My main goal is simply to get a good sounding mix. I'm not necessarily trying to emulate a recording of a Concert Hall Orchestra, as I'm mixing music Score for television. I know that mixing is as creative as any other aspect of music production, but I also know there are such things as good mixes and bad mixes. I would just like some pointers to get me closer to a "good mix".
Also, is it a stupid idea to place a Waves S1 imager on my master bus, to widen the stereo image at the very end of the pipe. I sort of favor the sound of a wider image, but is this a bad idea or is this gonna mess me up somewhere down the line, especially if I'm mixing for TV?
Thanks a bunch.
