Mastering Orchestral Music at AIR Studios 🎥


Mastering Orchestral Music at AIR Studios

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Last year I had the pleasure of recording 3 of my pieces with the Northern Film Orchestra: Snow-Covered Earth, Spring Bloom, and Eskimo Bob Overture.

A lot of pre-production work goes into preparing the scores and sheet music for the conductor and 60 musicians.

The rush of energy and excitement that I feel when the orchestra brings the music to life makes it all worth it!

On the journey of producing a final product, it doesn't end there.

✂️ Following the recording session we have a comp'ing session where we select the best takes and stitch them together to form a composite recording.

🎚️ Next, the mixing engineer takes this and works their magic to balance the levels of 30+ microphones to produce a final mix that allows all the right things to stand out at the right time.

🔈 Once we have the final mix, we're ready for mastering. For these pieces I had the pleasure of getting them mastered at the iconic AIR Studios in London.

This behind-the-scenes video documents the mastering session where I'm accompanied by the mastering engineer, Cicely Balston, orchestrator, Dominic Sewell, and mixing engineer, Jack Hughes.

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