First Violins: Carrying the Melody. Panning, Spreading and Reverb.

Topics covered in this video

  1. Violins are layered in 2 tracks and carry the melody (1:20)
  2. How to pan the first violins? (2:20)
  3. How to spread the sound of violins? Keep the left channel as the dominant one, but spread some to the right too (3:00)
  4. How to warm the sound of violin samples? (6:10)
  5. How much room reverb should you add if your samples already have some? (7:35)
  6. Pan the room reverb extremely left-right to achieve the spatial illusion (9:00)
  7. Should you use one or more reverbs? (9:45)
  8. When using plugins, start looking into presets to spare time, plus they usually are more optimized (10:50)

Plugins shown in this video

  • UAD Ampex ATR-102
  • Altiverb
  • Symphony 3D by Exponential Audio