African Symphony featuring Dimension Brass

[andyjh]

 OK, this is a bit of a brave move on my part, posting my creation here, but here goes. This is Van McCoy's African Symphony performed nearly exclusively with VSL. Dimension Brass was used for the 4 trumpets, 4 trombones and 2 french horns, the strings are chamber strings and the vienna choir was processed to produce a more edgy sound to match the song. The only guest players are Tambourine and Congas from NI Kontakt library. Drums are Jazz drums.

I have tried to create a studio sound, rather than a concert hall sound, most processing was Vienna Suite (with a little help from various UAD plug ins). The mp3 format has affected the quality a little, but it's still OK.

I posted this track, as it is a bit different from the usual classical and filmscore music, hope you all like the track, one of Van McCoys finest compositions and it is quite faithfull to the original Van McCoy version.

Here goes:  http://www.andyjh.dsl.pipex.com/African%20Symphony.mp3

[veetguitar]

Sounds good!

It does not make sense to go into detail since i am listening on a laptop  but the overall sound is really convincing ,especially brass.

On a closer listening, the choir still leaves me unsatisfied.(too static)

I would try to double the choir a bit more with strings so they are not so exposed.

Oh yeah: Something like congas in the beginning always benefit from a bit looser quantization. (I would use for example a conga pattern from Stylus RMX and transform it into a groove template in Cubase and then quantize my conga midi parts with that)