Movie Soundtrack Reverb

[Fretbored]

I've done some movie soundtracks. One thing that made my life easier was my TC mastering/reverb 6000. I was able to write different verbs to separate tracks. That way I could go in and easily edit the tails. Surprisingly, it wasn't that complex. An orchestra pretty much mixes themselves so the majority of my work was the verb. The main thing is for the tails NOT to sound digital. Think large wooden structures. Have you already recorded the orchestra?

[bove]

This is not for a particular job, I'm just curious and trying to educate myself... The sound I'm experimenting with is a recording I made of a Brass Section playing some film music excerpts. I work in Sequoia/Samplitue, and are using their convolution reverb.

You mention "editing the tails," do you mean general reverb tail characteristics, or do you mean the "end of the tune" tail?

[jayfrigo]

We've done a few, and I've also done some feature re-recording, so I have some varied perspectives on it. In mastering it's not uncommon to add a bit of extra reverb for original soundtrack albums. The orchestral scores are designed for movie theaters which have a bit of their own room ambience, certainly more so than a living room; and the re-recording mixers can sometimes add some reverb in the mix, so what you hear in the theater may be wetter than what you receive in the mastering studio from the scoring mixer. We have a a t.c. 6000 which is wonderful for reverb, but for one score, we rented in a Lexicon 960 per request of the client. If you decide to add some to smooth things out and add some lushness, obviously you need to be careful and conservative in its application. Done properly, it can definitely make it sound more like a movie.

[Fretbored]

Originally Posted by bove

This is not for a particular job, I'm just curious and trying to educate myself... The sound I'm experimenting with is a recording I made of a Brass Section playing some film music excerpts. I work in Sequoia/Samplitue, and are using their convolution reverb.

You mention "editing the tails," do you mean general reverb tail characteristics, or do you mean the "end of the tune" tail?

The reverb tail is what I was referring to.