In this video I show you a review of my orchestral music track Valse Mystique by Joël Dollié. He is a professional mixing engineer. I think a review done by a professional out of the music industry is gold for us home-based bedroom composers. We’re not professionals in all the areas we need to cover. […]
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Unique Risers – Sound Design
This is a topic that I had on my list for quite a while. It’s about risers! How to create awesome and unique risers for your (hybrid) orchestral music tracks. Creating a sound that distinguishes you from the flock of composers. Maybe we can even talk about a signature sound eventually. And it is super […]
Hybrid Orchestral Trailer Music
Trailer Music is a specific genre with its own ‘language, rules and structures’. You have orchestral, hybrid and a mix of them called ‘hybrid orchestral trailer music’. In this video I’ll kick off with three tips and I give you the chance to ask me questions – give me topics – that you want me […]
Orchestral Strings – Layering
We all want the best orchestral sounds. Lush and full sounding strings like we know from Hollywood. How hard we try, it is difficult (maybe even impossible) to get that sound straight out of a library. Definitely when you’re on a budget and you don’t have access to the high quality libraries. But maybe there […]
Harmonics – How to control
When we compose orchestral music we can use a variety of instruments. All beautiful instruments! But some of them can have certain harmonics that are too much. Your mix gets unbalanced. And you end up with a dissatisfying result. No need to! In this video I show you how you can control these harmonics. Don’t […]