hi friends!I have just finished the recording, editing and mixing of the fourth CD of a local Camerata orchestra.

It was a budget project, entirely done on a bad acoustical place, but with efforts to make it sound really good. Three days with an 8 hour recording period on each.

As there were too many musicians, we had to do inside an empty house. There were around 25 musicians playing violins, violas, cellos, bass and a stereo miked piano.

besides, in one song we had a trumpet and a sax playing a fox trot and in another a flute with a soprano sax. Also, in one song, for a very short period, a 25 piece choir.

The thing did not become a nightmare because we tried to plan things a lot.

We used "budget" gear:
PT 5.1.1
G4 800 512MB 80GB OS 9.2.2
ADAT BRIDGE 24 BITS
Mics: 2 AT4050, 3 C3000b, 1 C3000, 1 BETA 57, 2 C2000, 1 Q5
Consoles: 02R and 01V ( for additional mic preamps with phantom power)

Due to very bad position and deadlines it was not possible to make spaced omnis or deca tree techniques.

I have showed some samples to a very experienced Recording engineer from Florida, and he said that is quite good.

If possible I would like to listen from my friends on this forum some tips for mastering this job . I have some samples, made 2 files with pieces of each song around 4MB each.

For mastering, I will be using Q10, power dither level 3 and MAster X 5 band mode inside my PT mix.

I am trying to get close as possible to PEARLMAN's album, although it might sound insane.

P.s: the album was entirely done at 44k/24 bits so as to avoid any drawabacks from SRC.

Thanks for any info!
Nice weekend!

Studiodp@terra.combr
Eng. alécio Costa :w:

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