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Originally Posted by bgrotto  Unfortunately, you're wrong.
Your ear isn't hearing the timbre or ambience as fake, it's hearing the lack of realistic articulation. You gotta learn the instrument to program it convincingly, especially one as nuanced as brass. |
Gee, I'm not sure how related this may be to your post, but I have to admit that in my experience, trying to "fix" brass tracks with EQ is often a "fool's errand."
With brass, it seems that the more "fixed" the freq-response problems get from EQ, the less "real" the instruments sound.
There seems to be something about capturing brass (sampled or live-tracked) that requires a working knowledge of these instruments which can only be acquired by actually spending some time with your
own lips to the mouthpiece!
(Come to think of it,
other things work that way too!)