“It was a success, so we carried on the Berlin Series here and we recently added to it with the release of Berlin Brass. We eventually recorded what became Berlin Woodwinds and have been coming here since. “I met Tom and listened to the stage here at Teldex Studio, and really liked it. Jan came to Berlin to look at Teldex Studio which, in turn, helped spawn the company’s most successful series… The two titles did very well for Orchestral Tools, but the original studio in Minsk in which they were recorded closed, which meant a change in recording venue for future titles.
So he started the company to produce our first title, Orchestral String Runs, followed by Symphonic Sphere.” At the time, he was working on a piece of music and he needed some orchestral runs that just weren’t available. “Hendrik founded the company with Manfred Mantik. As the company’s Jan Lepold tells us, Orchestral Tools started because one of its founders, a musician himself, needed help… However, the company has been around for five years and is based in the beautiful city of Freiburg in southern Germany. We hate to admit it – and kinda have already – but that NAMM meeting was the first we’d heard of Orchestral Tools. So when the makers of Metropolis invited us along to the sessions for the follow-up, we jumped at the chance: Berlin, the chance to brush up on our orchestral recording knowledge… what’s not to like? This bombastic and dramatic set of sounds was described by the late, great Keith Gemmell as “a terrific orchestral library that contains just about everything required for composing and producing loud, powerful and epic music”, before bestowing that MusicTech 10/10 Excellence Award on it. One of these has quickly become a MusicTech favourite since we discovered it scaring its neighbours at the NAMM show with demos of its (then new) Metropolis Ark 1 collection. Luckily, there are plenty of companies that sit somewhere between those two extremes who can take a lot of the effort out of the equation for you, while still producing exceptional-quality results.
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You have to know what to do with said orchestra, where to place them, how to mic them, record them, feed them… The former won’t get you anywhere and the latter will not only cost, but is fraught with its own problems. When it comes to using orchestral music in your productions, there are so many options these days: from using terrible GM sounds on ancient digital keyboards, to hiring your own orchestra – at enormous expense. Andy Jones visits Teldex Studio in Berlin to witness the recording of the follow-up to the incredible, 10/10 scoring Metropolis Ark 1 library from Orchestral Tools – and discovers enough to bring you his own guide to recording an orchestra…
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