Amateur Orchestra It stops being a background

It stops being a background texture and starts behaving like a lead

Each patch is two freeze passes combined: one for the left

shaken percussion isn’t just about the beats—it’s about the stuff that happens in between

You hear all the texture of the bow

Vibraphone Short

Amateur Orchestra It stops being a backgroundSometimes when I record an acoustic guitar or piano with a singer songwriter and want to add orchestral elements to it, I want to feel like its recorded in the same environment by the same kind of player. I might want it to sound like someone pulling an old instrument out of the attic and blowing a few notes for a unique texture, or picking up an instrument for the first time and just seeing what happens. The attacks are inconsistent, the tuning isnt