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Old 28th September 2010   #4260
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Originally Posted by dkelley View Post
See - this is why I get jobs all the time (as a session violinist who is also and engineer, producer, arranger and transcriber). I record all the parts myself but actually play each part of a string section over and over - it's the only way to get a string section that is thick, full and real out of a 14x14 foot room :-)

however her statement is pretty typical - people don't realize that panning the same track all over the place just results in a very loud, noisier and slightly off-center mono solo violin track.
So, Don, do you do it by setting the same mic posotion and moving a little between takes? I know a trombone player who did that to create a very realistic 8 voice Bone choir. Or do you just pan them differently?

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