Tim Smith Posted December 6, 2021 Share Posted December 6, 2021 I made this yesterday morning in a short amount of time as music for a pre service live stream. This is why it's 4 or so Christmas songs all strung together. I'm getting better at playing, mixing and mastering 10 minute segments of music fast.....I think. I made up the arrangements of these common hymns on the fly. I did not intend for it to in any way be loud so not much limiting was done. I would be interested to hear if you think this needs to be louder for the type of music it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB01 Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 Tim what's the piano you're playing here, recorded acoustic or a VST - if so which one? To my ears (on decent studio headphones) it sounds a little 'thin' - maybe some reverb or a different piano voicing would help fatten the sound a little? All that said, well played putting all these together as a continuous arrangement must have been quite a task. Great job Andy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Sprouse Posted December 7, 2021 Share Posted December 7, 2021 So beautiful. Really sets the mood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Smith Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, AndyB01 said: Tim what's the piano you're playing here, recorded acoustic or a VST - if so which one? To my ears (on decent studio headphones) it sounds a little 'thin' - maybe some reverb or a different piano voicing would help fatten the sound a little? All that said, well played putting all these together as a continuous arrangement must have been quite a task. Great job Andy Thanks for comments Andy. This is the Concert Grand in my Casio PX-5S. This is what I'm using as a controller right now. I also tracked midi but didn't use it. Probably the thing making it thin is I likely rolled off too much base with EQ. The whole thing took me about 20 minutes to play and put together. 3 hours ago, David Sprouse said: So beautiful. Really sets the mood. Thanks you David. Much appreciated. Edited December 8, 2021 by Tim Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyB01 Posted December 8, 2021 Share Posted December 8, 2021 10 hours ago, Tim Smith said: Thanks for comments Andy. This is the Concert Grand in my Casio PX-5S. Probably the thing making it thin is I likely rolled off too much base with EQ. Yep that could be it then - also could be a headphones thing, notoriously unreliable for judging a mix with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Smith Posted December 8, 2021 Author Share Posted December 8, 2021 3 hours ago, AndyB01 said: Yep that could be it then - also could be a headphones thing, notoriously unreliable for judging a mix with. I mix with ATH-M50x which are noted to be a bit heavy in the low mids. I use Sonarworks headphone correction which helps. Still seems to be a big difference in any mix between my monitors using ARC 3 and the headphones. I have posted mixes without the correction and it doesn't make a huge difference for me. Another possibility is I used Ozone 9 piano setting which notoriously thins out the piano because it's made for a full mix. Thanks for your crits! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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