Have you heard Mozart 33...?

I agree my friend.

It looks like it is essentially a SM57. And my advice doesn't change too much for mic placement. Ideally you'll want it in front of you and above your head by about an arm length and a half. You will want to avoid placing it bell side into the bell.

Thanks! Ya just BBCSO. I created it as a stress test to make sure that thinker orchestrated passages would work without issues when I am writing. It was a bit tedious but well worth the time as I learned a lot about the library and the Watergoin in writing it out like this.

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The concertmaster served as a very important leader here.

Hey Drew, I'm glad you found it helpful. I am still rather surprised by how well my recommendations have help up over time. But I think I missed emphasizing a point in my video that now with COVID happening and so many people trying to record at home is that for French Horn especially keep the mic in front of you at the very least. If you try to close mic the bell you end up with a sound that is very much like a tenor tuba, and absolutely nothing like a French horn. I had the opportunity to record Mahler 1st symphony while at IU and spot miced the horn section from about 40 feet away behind the section (on the wall with a PZM mic if you know what those are) and to my surprise the spot was fairly useless because the spot still sounded like a bunch of tenor tubas even at that distance!

Thanks Brian, I just signed up today. I'm not sure I'm going to make this competition, but I hope I can help you with more content for the CueTube soon. ;)

@@Falcowe Excellent! Thanks, Walter :)

Hey @Andrew Maleson, thanks for your feedback. I agree partially with your comment on too much natural minor (although I thought some of it was harmonic minor) but in any case I do agree I did stick in the same tonality, and in listening back I wish I had done some sort of B part because it really is slightly annoying that I just repeat the same thing over and over again. And as far as ducking the music, I might have gone a bit too far but as I am working on some longer projects where I am also doing mixing for the picture I felt it appropriate to make sure the DX was heard. I do agree it is weird to have the music duck down so much but then I feel like it is motivated by DX being present and its a convention that most people will understand why it's happening. It certainly would be idea though if I had better orchestrated it in places so I wouldn't have had to duck the music so much. I am glad you like the rocket trajectory music, I did too. I probably like to too much, it was so much fun to play. I mean I was having an absolute ball playing in that part of the sequence. And I also really like the Choral element coming out of the car explosion too. Those are my two favorite parts of what I wrote. So I am glad you liked them too. And finally I'm slightly surprised you liked the ending so much. I thought it felt really tacked on like I had gotten to the stop part of the sequence and then realized that I still had 30 sec left of music to write (seeing as that is exactly what happened) so I am delighted to know that at least one person felt it worked well!

Hey Gary! Thanks. I actually have no idea how many tracks I used actively but 70 sounds about right. Maybe a bit high. And I'd be happy to share the MIDI file, just shoot me an email at [email protected] and I'll send it your way.

Thanks Carlos!