Side Drum: side snare patch 2, dry
+60, a little reverb A at -60 (reverb should have been -120)
Cymbal: Cymbal 2, dry +60, a
fair old bit of rev B -60 (reverb should have been -120)
Bass drum: dry +60, rev B
-60 (reverb should have been -120)
Bass Guitar: dry +90, reverb
C -90
Trombone 1 overblown: dry
-60, reverb A -120
Trombone 2 overblown: dry
-75, reverb A +105
Xylophone: dry -45,
SuperVerb(tm) +135
Harpsichord 1: tuned dead on
+45, reverb A -135
Harpsichord 2: tuned v v
slightly sharp dry +45, reverb A -135
Bass Electric Distorted
(three end notes): harpsichord patch with lots of filter Q and
manual frequency control on the last note, SuperVerb(tm) through
the auto-rotate going ACW quite fast
Trumpet 1 Hammondicon muted trumpet
sound mostly even harmonics: dry +15, a fair amount of reverb B
-165
Trumpet 2 Hammondicon muted
trumpet sound mostly even harmonics: dry -15, a fair amount of
reverb B -165
Trumpet 3 Hammondicon mostly
odd harmonics, brighter, dry -60, reverb B at +120
Trumpet 4 Hammondicon mostly
odd harmonics, brighter, dry -60, reverb B at +120
Trumpet 3_2 as above, same
notes less velocity
Trumpet 4_2 as above, same
notes less velocity
Trumpet screaming descant
recorded with ambisonic
auto panner running at several Hz and SuperVerb
Strings: wineglass sample recorded
with the cheap soundfield mike dead ahead in UHJ and loaded as
stereo into Helios sampler, then played back through UHJ and
speaker feed decoder using +/- 30 degree feeds, returning these
to the PC via the pan-rotate positioning these feeds at -60 and
-120 on the right. Not as outrageously complex as it sounds.
Could have recorded the sample at the right soundstage location
on the mic in the first place but then it would have been
single-use only.
Cocktail Shaker: Recorded about 2
metres from the cheap soundfield in the kitchen direct to
B-format. This was going to be a real Vodka-Martini being made
in a cocktail shaker to celebrate the last track but it turned
out that the packet of Bigga marrowfat peas used to check the
levels with sounded better and chucking some ice cubes into a
beerglass at the end was more sensible than covering the kitchen
with Smirnoff and Happy Shopper Vervini Vermouth.
Ting: Recorded direct to B format in the correct soundstage
location close to the cheap
ambisonic microphone.
PRS apologies to Bacharach
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