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Hey man, long time !

as long as you make sure Ark doesn't sound too close in comparison it should blend fine! You can use these tricks to help yeah. The reverb technique still works with close mics, although don't use too much or there really is no point in re blurring a sound that you wanted defined too much.

Hey ! Yeah if you have a dry mic and need true depth use SP, doubler is for adding room to stuff that already sounds good. Glad you like it!

@ Perfect, thanks Joël!

Hey! So nowdays you rarely get files that were recorded to tape, unless you specifically ask for it (and probably pay extra). But it's not generally something that people want by default. What will determine whether or not I add tape to orchestral instruments is mainly how the tone of the recording is, so I think it's important to know what tape does. If your recordings have too much sharp treble, or maybe the violins within your decca tree sound a bit too sizzly in the high treble at times and/or you are just looking for a bit more density, and potentially rolling off some 10-20k, then tape can really beneficial in order to ''densify'' the timbre in the highs. Imho this is a very small detail. Many recordings that were not done on tape at all will sound beautiful and could be described as ''the sound heard in films''. Now if we are talking about older movies, tape saturation is probably a good start. Everything had less fidelity, less highs less lows. How to get the sound heard in films is such a wide question that it's impossible to answer, many factors like the actual writing, the room, the players, the mixing engineer, etc. But imho tape is definitely not a big factor regarding that. And so to figure out if it was recorded to tape, the noise floor can reveal that. Because tape can sometimes be really clean in terms of saturation that one might not even notice. Recordings to tape should always have some kind of measurable noise floor.. Unless it was gated.

@ thank you. All great points. I mostly mix commercial music, last 25 years. I remember when PT made its way into studios. I was just curious how this affected the film music industry since I know some libraries boast tape as their recording medium. Wondering if it’s even used in todays films, but I think you made the point. :). Thanks again for the reply.

that would probably work! It works amazing on sample modeling brass too so no reason it wouldn't work with a close harp. Try the most proximity however to avoid double transients on sharp sounds.

@ Appreciate the reply, haven't purchased the Eventide plugin yet, waiting to see if there's a sale on it soon but just the theory from this video has helped me in some of my other compositions/mixes so appreciate the tips! Keep them coming :)

Rolling off highs and lows a bit :)

@ Great, thanks again!

That too helps. You can't really magically add violins to your favorite library though..