Blending Cinematic Studio Strings & Spitfire BBC SO Pro together - is this string orchestra heaven?!

[@ilayskripch]

Buy the way, sometimes I do something similar but with other libraries, this is a good way to get natural sound for your string section. As for me, if I’ll get the BBS symphonic orchestra I not sure that I’ll mix them, you can achieve so quality sounds using only this tool…but from the other hand, CSS give me feel more studio sound, BBS - one of the best music hall and my favourite orchestra…I guess it’s a real reason to blend them and it’s sounds really good 👍

[@YeahBan]

There's a way like this! It's a good experiment!

[@GrahamDarcy-h8i]

Really informative video Tom, I really enjoyed. I have BBC SO Pro and just picked up CSS, so can't wait to try blending them like this. I see you're using the LUXE plugin, I was looking into this also, do you use it primarily for extra sheen on the high frequencies for strings. Klevgrand also have a Pana plugin (similar to Panbox) - do you find the Panning plugins a real benefit for positioning instruments? Thanks, G

[@TomHarroldMusic]

Glad it was helpful, thanks for watching! I use LUXE quite subtly; just for some nice harmonics/distortion to help them cut through the mix. I use Panbox but ONLY when I'm using close mics/signals - you don't want to pan whole rooms, it'll make the instruments sound rather odd. Thanks for tuning in!

[@GrahamDarcy-h8i]

@@TomHarroldMusic Really appreciate you coming back to me Tom and the advice, that's fantastic!! Really loving you channel, learning so much from all the videos.

[@TomHarroldMusic]

@ no problem, thanks for watching!

[@Emmanueluzozie]

Done!!!!

[@TomHarroldMusic]

Enjoy it!

[@kwameryan]

Sounds awesome! Effective and elegant... That is, as long as your parts aren't moving much or very fast, at which point the variable CSS legato latency becomes an issue. I have and love BBCSO and CSS but with bigger more complex pieces, I would never have time to layer like this. Which is why I invested in VSL"s Duality Strings which does all the layering set up for you out of the box.

[@N-JKoordt]

Very noisy