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Re: Weber with Julian Bliss

Author: JulianBliss
Date: 2020-08-17 03:07

Hi Everyone

Thanks for the nice comments! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Firstly, the Quartet are amazing. I love working with them and they are awesome people. I was very grateful they agreed to do this video!

We realised the easiest way to do it was to actually have the Quartet record their parts while listening in one ear to the commercial recording we’d made together in 2018. I then put their parts together and had that in my headphones while I recorded my part on top.

In regards to gear, I use a pair of Royer R-122 MkII’s which I love. I’ve always been a fan of the ribbon sound. These go into a UA Apollo Twin X Interface and then I record into Logic. There are so many good options out there but I’m pretty happy with this set up.

Those headphones are Beyer DT-150’s. A decent closed back headphone that doesn’t spill into the microphones. They’re also very durable and pretty much every part is replaceable. Sometimes I use in-ears too. For listening/mixing I tend to use a pair of DT990’s alongside monitors. The majority of producers and engineers I’ve worked with on the classical side use Sennheiser HD-600’s which are also really nice sounding headphones.

In regards to mixing and mastering I didn’t do a huge amount. I used a couple of UA audio plug in’s which helped it sound more homogenous. (EQ,reverb and a mastering plug in) The challenge was to match the sound since the Quartet all recorded audio on their iPhones. Once that was all done I put it all into Adobe Premiere to create the video.

It was fun to work on and I’ve enjoyed learning and getting better at home recording. This forced time at home has meant we have to adapt and find new ways to create music with others. I’ve been working on some more home recordings and hope to put some more videos out pretty soon.

Stay safe everyone

Thanks!
Julian

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