Hello all: I wrote a short sweet little tune that has only piano (The Maverick) and some background violins/cellos (Spitfire Originals Intimate Strings), kind of like elevator music. It sounds a bit muddy to me since the audio spectrum is more or less the same for the piano notes and the stringed instruments, except for the very low cellos which don't overlap with the piano. This means that using ProEQ won't really help, or will it? I'm not an expert.
Does anyone have any suggestions or approach that they could recommend so that I can improve the quality of my final output? Any magical plugins out there? |
Hi,
i use a plugin to cleanup bass/Kick drum interaction, vocals/lead instruments etc that works well for me. I'm pretty sure that you can demo it, see link below... https://www.pluginboutique.com/product/ ... rackspacer
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I use piano and strings myself. Overall, I usually cut a little low end from the piano, depending on the plugin used. I also try to pan my stringed instruments according to where they actually sit in an orchestra. This helps to separate them. I keep the piano middle-ish. Depending on the tune I might put convolution reverb on the entire mix, to simulate music being played in a hall\theater, rather than on individual tracks.
Search for "orchestra seating arrangement" might help as guideline for your mix. Good luck |
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