{"id":1000,"date":"2025-01-13T02:48:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T02:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2025-01-13T02:48:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T02:48:51","slug":"mixing-snow-at-2-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grexblog.com\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"Mixing “Snow at 2 am”"},"content":{"rendered":"

My random note composition on Saturday became “Snow at 2 am”. I worked at the piano for an hour, then took the composition to the computer and worked in FL Studio and Audacity for several more hours — 5 hrs in total.<\/p>\n

I wanted the piece to sound like one of those schmaltzy Hollywood arrangements with a piano and a string section. In FL Studio I had a piano part and a string part in separate stems, and varied the relative volume. Bring up the strings here, back them off there.<\/p>\n

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However, when I brought it over to Audacity, I wasn’t happy with the way the instruments came forward \/ receded backwards, and I re-sculpted the volume<\/p>\n

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I was happy with that, put it away, then listened to it later and didn’t like it at all! I guess the lesson is to keep the stems separate, and do the dynamics later, at the end? That way if I want to undo \/ redo, I can make the changes in one location. The way I have it now, I would have to make changes in both FL Studio AND Audacity.<\/p>\n

What about like this? Say for solo piano with a string section.
\nRecord the piano in FL Studio, “flat”
\nRecord the piano in FL Studio with the kind of expressive dynamics I imagine
\nRecord the strings in FL Studio “flat”
\nRecord the strings with expression and dynamics
\nGive Neal the “flat” threads in Ableton
\nGive Neal my attempt at a mix, and a verbal description<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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