Jeff Hijlkema | The Halmeijk Orchestra playing Backing you Up! // production info in description @jeffhijlkema | Uploaded June 2024 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
Through the years my mixing taste gravitated towards a live performance vibe, as if all instruments where recorded all at once performing in the same room, where I really tried to create the joy of making music together, all from the listening position of the audience and not necessarily from the conductors standing point, resulting in a slightly different use of reverb. Bearing this in mind I opened an older Cubase file mixing and mastering it using my developed taste in combination with my favorite mixing and mastering plugins, mentioned below. Backing you up! I originally composed to serve as a backing track to improvise on for a solo instrument of voice, but it developed as a track on its own.
Presenting The Halmeijk Orchestra:
Keys:
The Grandeur grand piano – Native Instruments (staged middle)
Electric DI piano – LABS (staged left)
Scarbee Mark 1 – Blue Ballad – Native Instruments (staged right)
Vintage Organs – Basic Rock 3 – Native Instruments (panned middle-right)
Strings Legato – BBCSO Pro:
Violins 1 - Violins 2 – Violas – Celli – Basses
Mic settings: close 31% - Tree 100% - Outriggers 63%
Strings pizzicato – BBCSO Pro:
Basses - mic settings: Close 40% - Tree 100% - Outriggers 44%
Woodwinds staccatissimo – BBCSO Pro:
Flute solo – Oboe solo – Clarinet solo – Bassoon solo
Mic settings: Close 40% - Tree 100% - Outriggers 63% - Sides 35% (not bassoon)
Woodwinds Legato – BBCSO Pro:
Flute solo – Oboe solo – Clarinet solo – Bassoon solo
Mic settings: Close 40% - Tree 100% - Outriggers 63% - Sides 35% (not clarinet & bassoon)
Brass staccatissimo BBCSO Pro:
Horns a4 – Trumpets a3 – Trombones a3
Mic settings: close 40% - Tree 90% - Outriggers 50%
Brass Legato – BBCSO Pro:
Horn (1) – Horn (2) – Trumpet (1) – Trumpet (2) – Trombone (1) – Trombone (2)
Mic settings: close 35% - Tree 90% - Outriggers 70% - Sides 35% (not trombones)
Tuned percussion – Marimba – BBCSO Pro
Mic settings: close wide 80% - Tree 50% - Outriggers 50%
Untuned Percussion – Drumlabs - Native Instruments:
Drumkit Terrific Ride (panned through middle)
Agogo (panned more left)
Woodblock high (panned through middle)
Woodblock mid (panned more right)
All instruments and/or auxes where more or less processed using (some of) the following plugins:
- Fabfilter EQ2 (for parametric EQ)
- Pultec EQ1A (for warming and little punch)
- Avalon VT 373 sp – EQ/compressor (for character and boost in low and high)
- Manley Massive Passive EQ (for little warming in low end)
- Renaissance Axx compressor (for little boosting the staccatissimo’s).
- CLA – 2A Stereo compressor (little boosting the individual key instruments).
Particular on the Drumlabs drumkit I did some deeper processing to make it feel more alive and punchy using:
- Fabfilter EQ2 for parametric purpose
- Fabfilter EQ2 for mid/side eq
- Waves C6 multiband compressor
- Pultec EQ1A for low end and high end, and for overall boost.
- Fabfilter C2 compressor for final compression, just -2 db
- SSL Stereo compressor for analog character, just -1 db and little make up gain.
To get all used different instrument libraries in the same space and depth I used the following reverb chain:
1. Seventh Heaven – Scoring Stage 2.20 sec. – differing from -24db to -11db.
2. Lexicon 224 – Large Hall B - 3 sec. – differing from -6db to -8db.
Exporting the mixing file I started the mastering fun in a seperate Cubase project using the following chain where all these plugins doing little pulls and pushes like -1 to -2.5 db:
1.Fabfilter EQ2 - parametric on low, mids and high
2.Pultec EQ1A - little boost on the whole and warming.
3. Manley Massive Passive MST warming the low end 47hz and boosting high end 16k.
4. Avalon VT 747 sp, for little punch on the whole and some compression -0.5 db.
5. Manley Variable MU Compressor -1.5db
6. SSL Fusion Stereo Image, widening 1.5 db
7. Fabfilter C2 Compressor, for final compression -2.5db
8. Fabfilter L2 Limiter, -11LUFS, 16x oversampling, -0.6 dBTP
If you like what you find here please consider subscribing or leave a comment. It will help the channel to be found. Thank you.
Be well,
Jeff
Through the years my mixing taste gravitated towards a live performance vibe, as if all instruments where recorded all at once performing in the same room, where I really tried to create the joy of making music together, all from the listening position of the audience and not necessarily from the conductors standing point, resulting in a slightly different use of reverb. Bearing this in mind I opened an older Cubase file mixing and mastering it using my developed taste in combination with my favorite mixing and mastering plugins, mentioned below. Backing you up! I originally composed to serve as a backing track to improvise on for a solo instrument of voice, but it developed as a track on its own.
Presenting The Halmeijk Orchestra:
Keys:
The Grandeur grand piano – Native Instruments (staged middle)
Electric DI piano – LABS (staged left)
Scarbee Mark 1 – Blue Ballad – Native Instruments (staged right)
Vintage Organs – Basic Rock 3 – Native Instruments (panned middle-right)
Strings Legato – BBCSO Pro:
Violins 1 - Violins 2 – Violas – Celli – Basses
Mic settings: close 31% - Tree 100% - Outriggers 63%
Strings pizzicato – BBCSO Pro:
Basses - mic settings: Close 40% - Tree 100% - Outriggers 44%
Woodwinds staccatissimo – BBCSO Pro:
Flute solo – Oboe solo – Clarinet solo – Bassoon solo
Mic settings: Close 40% - Tree 100% - Outriggers 63% - Sides 35% (not bassoon)
Woodwinds Legato – BBCSO Pro:
Flute solo – Oboe solo – Clarinet solo – Bassoon solo
Mic settings: Close 40% - Tree 100% - Outriggers 63% - Sides 35% (not clarinet & bassoon)
Brass staccatissimo BBCSO Pro:
Horns a4 – Trumpets a3 – Trombones a3
Mic settings: close 40% - Tree 90% - Outriggers 50%
Brass Legato – BBCSO Pro:
Horn (1) – Horn (2) – Trumpet (1) – Trumpet (2) – Trombone (1) – Trombone (2)
Mic settings: close 35% - Tree 90% - Outriggers 70% - Sides 35% (not trombones)
Tuned percussion – Marimba – BBCSO Pro
Mic settings: close wide 80% - Tree 50% - Outriggers 50%
Untuned Percussion – Drumlabs - Native Instruments:
Drumkit Terrific Ride (panned through middle)
Agogo (panned more left)
Woodblock high (panned through middle)
Woodblock mid (panned more right)
All instruments and/or auxes where more or less processed using (some of) the following plugins:
- Fabfilter EQ2 (for parametric EQ)
- Pultec EQ1A (for warming and little punch)
- Avalon VT 373 sp – EQ/compressor (for character and boost in low and high)
- Manley Massive Passive EQ (for little warming in low end)
- Renaissance Axx compressor (for little boosting the staccatissimo’s).
- CLA – 2A Stereo compressor (little boosting the individual key instruments).
Particular on the Drumlabs drumkit I did some deeper processing to make it feel more alive and punchy using:
- Fabfilter EQ2 for parametric purpose
- Fabfilter EQ2 for mid/side eq
- Waves C6 multiband compressor
- Pultec EQ1A for low end and high end, and for overall boost.
- Fabfilter C2 compressor for final compression, just -2 db
- SSL Stereo compressor for analog character, just -1 db and little make up gain.
To get all used different instrument libraries in the same space and depth I used the following reverb chain:
1. Seventh Heaven – Scoring Stage 2.20 sec. – differing from -24db to -11db.
2. Lexicon 224 – Large Hall B - 3 sec. – differing from -6db to -8db.
Exporting the mixing file I started the mastering fun in a seperate Cubase project using the following chain where all these plugins doing little pulls and pushes like -1 to -2.5 db:
1.Fabfilter EQ2 - parametric on low, mids and high
2.Pultec EQ1A - little boost on the whole and warming.
3. Manley Massive Passive MST warming the low end 47hz and boosting high end 16k.
4. Avalon VT 747 sp, for little punch on the whole and some compression -0.5 db.
5. Manley Variable MU Compressor -1.5db
6. SSL Fusion Stereo Image, widening 1.5 db
7. Fabfilter C2 Compressor, for final compression -2.5db
8. Fabfilter L2 Limiter, -11LUFS, 16x oversampling, -0.6 dBTP
If you like what you find here please consider subscribing or leave a comment. It will help the channel to be found. Thank you.
Be well,
Jeff
