Ableton Forum

Using a 100% digital/MIDI/plugins setup, I'm looking for tips on how I could achieve more of a recorded type of sound, with some "listeners distance" to the instruments, something like a typical classical chamber music recording.

Thanks in advance!

Thomas

Play it out your speakers and record it back in, or find a good reverb.

edit: or both.

A convolution reverb and some impulse responses recorded in the kind of space your after would definitely help. If your on pc you can still get 'Sir' free I think, which is supposed to be a pretty good one, then just search google for impulse response sources like www.noisevault.com.

A lot of studios I know have more or less stopped using reverbs, and switched to complex (or just weird) delays.

That feeling of distance or space in the sound can be acheived in all manner of ways, but reverbs/delays is a good place to start.

Next: speaker emulation.

then: Room recordings. As in, record a room without any sound in it. That usually adds some cool ambience to a track.

search: "the mixing thread" in this forum.

also check out Tweakheadz.com and Givemebrain.net

If you don't know what reverb is yet you got a long way to go. But the process and struggle is what makes a hot track worth it.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. I think using convolution reverb and maybe also the recorded ambience might give me the results I'm loooking for.