Composer/ Engineer Needed!

[Peabody]

I am moving to the Los Angeles area & am looking for someone who can help teach me how to get great recordings on a consistent basis am wiling to pay. All libraries are Eastwest used with Kontakt & D.P. 5.1.3



Thank you!
Michael nikujaga23@hotmail.com
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[paulwr]

I am moving to the Los Angeles area & am looking for someone who can help teach me how to get great recordings on a consistent basis am wiling to pay. All libraries are Eastwest used with Kontakt & D.P. 5.1.3



Thank you!
Michael nikujaga23@hotmail.com
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Until you find the instructor you are after, take time to actually duplicate some orchestral soundrtack sections that you like or think would make a good study. Take a part of a favorite cue and do everything possible to duplicate it both musically and from a production standpoint. It can be short.

It may not be exact, and you might even make it sound better! But just keep at it until you feel you are as close as you can get with your equipment. You will learn quite a bit doing that.

Good luck,
-Paul

[LEX]

Until you find the instructor you are after, take time to actually duplicate some orchestral soundrtack sections that you like or think would make a good study. Take a part of a favorite cue and do everything possible to duplicate it both musically and from a production standpoint. It can be short.

It may not be exact, and you might even make it sound better! But just keep at it until you feel you are as close as you can get with your equipment. You will learn quite a bit doing that.

Good luck,
-Paul

Such great advice. this is such a great way to get to know your studio, sounds and how to make it sound that way.

I still do it.

LEX

[paulwr]

Such great advice. this is such a great way to get to know your studio, sounds and how to make it sound that way.

I still do it.

LEX

Thanks, and so do I. I owe some of my employment to Jame Newton Howard's King Kong. (first cue on my orchestral web page is the cue I sold after practicing some King Kong)

Thanks,
-Paul

[paulwr]

Thanks, and so do I. I owe some of my employment to Jame Newton Howard's King Kong. (first cue on my orchestral web page is the cue I sold after practicing some King Kong)

Thanks,
-Paul

Oops, correction, 2nd cue "Lost Tribal Ritual".

-Paul

[BobGraham]

Were you able to obtain a score for the king kong parts you practiced with? I want to practice scoring but the problem is that I can never find a written score for the movies I am looking to practice on.

Thanks alot!

Bob Graham

[paulwr]

Were you able to obtain a score for the king kong parts you practiced with? I want to practice scoring but the problem is that I can never find a written score for the movies I am looking to practice on.

Thanks alot!

Bob Graham

No, I don't have the score, you must use your ears in this exercise!! If you get good at this, and believe me, if you really dig in and do it, you will progress quickly. More quickly than you expected. Break it down. Just listen for one part at a time within a very small area. Find your instruments/sounds that matches best, move to the next part within the small mini time slot you are working on. I do just a few bars at a time. Then, once you have all the parts, you may need to be tweaking dynamics, replace sounds, whatever it takes! Then after you feel you've done that well, turn your attention fully to any needed eq , compression or other processing. Remember, you are not just duplicating notes. You are going for understanding the whole production value as best you possibly can. Depending on what you are doing, it may not take much processing, it may be primarily generating dynamics in your mockup that put it over the top for orchestral stuff.

Keep you choice of music to duplicate very short, especially at first. My 'Kong' exercise I gave myself to duplicate was only 25 secs long. You want to be able to pull this off quickly, such as just one day if possible. You'll be encouraged more that way.

Dig in and do it. You'll be very happy you did.

Good luck,
-Paul

[Bessinnox]

king kong conductor
(http://www.halleonard.com/item_detail.jsp?itemid=4490517&order=6&catcode=00&refer=search&type=product&keywords=king+kong+)

[Peabody]

Thanks Guys I'll try it but I still need to get hooked up with an instructor.

[dubaifox]

Here is my five step program for become a better writer/arranger that will take you further/faster and cost less.

-Follow the advice mentioned about transcribing cues
-Study orchestration manuals with accompanying audio CD's
-Regularly listen to the style(s) of music you want to compose in
-Read the helpful information passed on by the many talented members on this and other forums about ways to coax your sample libraries into sounding like the real thing
-Write a cue and then post it here so people can give you feedback