I bought a few Play Sample Libraries while they had a massive sale. This is how one can get “realistic instrument sounds” when composing music, without needing to hire musicians to play the parts. Each sound recording is tied to a particular note and can be triggered to play using MIDI files (or an electronic keyboard). Q: What sample libraries and plugins do you use?Ī: For those who may be wondering what “sample libraries” are, they are a collection of sound recordings used by composers and music producers to create music digitally. Q: What video editing software do you use?Ī: I primarily use Final Cut Pro X for Macintosh. Free stuff was good enough for releasing my first album! I updated recently (2020) to Logic Pro. Q: What notation software do you use for your sheet music PDF’s?Ī: I use Myriad’s “Harmony Assistant.” It has a steep learning curve, but it’s a great notation software! Q: What audio programs do you use?Ī: For the longest time, I had been using Garage Band 6.3. This is because room ambiance can always be digitally added afterwards in post production, but it can never be “reduced.” Sometimes rooms with a lot of ambiance sound great to the human ear with “live playing,” but muddy in a microphone recording. I have learned, however, that it is best to “record dry.” This means to avoid recording extensive room ambiance, such as recording an a very echo-prone room. This seems to reduce bow noises and also picks up some of the room’s ambiance. I usually stand about 4 to 6 feet away from the microphone, with the microphone elevated about a foot higher than the instrument. I’ve learned that it is best to record from a slight distance. It’s a very “revealing” microphone, which also has its own pros and cons - I can’t “hide” my mistakes and bow squeaks as easily as I could with the H4 Zoom, but it stays fairly true to the sound of the violin. It picks up every little sound.literally everything! It even picks up when the refrigerator turns on in the next room. I usually dampen the higher frequencies in post production. It’s a very nice microphone, although I do think the high notes tend to sound a bit too piercing with it. The Blue Woodpecker is my main microphone now. It records sounding a little “distant and quiet,” which can be both good and bad. I’ve also used the H4 Zoom, which is a pretty good microphone for the violin. I think it picks up a lot of the resonance and echo that occurs inside the violin body, which is really nice. Q: What microphone do you use?Ī: I actually really like the microphone that comes with the Canon 70D. All of the equipment that I use can be found on my Recommendations page. Q: What camera do you use for your YouTube videos?Ī: Most of my videos are filmed with the Canon 70D with the 18-135 mm kit lens. I explain more about the different Sample Libraries that I use in a below question. I still have a ton to learn about music production, and I’m learning new things every day. They are quite difficult to make, but I think I am getting better and more efficient at producing them. I have been curious about music production, and creating these backing tracks are my “practice” at producing music. Q: Where do you get your backing tracks?Ī: So far, I have made all of my backing tracks. Classical music is beautiful, but my heart forever lies with fiddle music (especially Celtic music!). This rigorously focused on classical music, and was very challenging, but I learned a lot about the violin. After high school, I was accepted into the violin performance music department at the university that I was studying at to pursue a music minor. Learning classical music really helped me develop a better tone, and I started to learn complex music. As I entered high school, I started to have lessons that focused a lot more on classical violin pieces. As a teenager, I even joined a group called the “Blackberry Jammers,” and we would always sit in a circle and play fun fiddle tunes. Q: What got you into fiddle music?Ī: Fiddle music was the first kind of music that I started to play. I have played off-and-on as a casual hobby. Q: When did you start learning the violin?Ī: I started playing when I was 9. I think it has a very sweet, but crisp sound. I played A LOT of different violins before I picked this particular one. I love the sound of my violin - it’s quite “bright” sounding, but not shrill. I do not know much about Kriesler violins, so if anyone has some additional information on them, it would be greatly appreciated. I am asked a lot of the same questions, so hopefully this page will answer many of them, especially for the shy folks out there! Q: What kind of violin do you play?Ī: I have an 1899 Ernst Kreusler “Copy of Antonius Stradivarius” violin from Germany (not a Kreisler violin).
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