Favorite Compressor Plug In for Orchestral Music

dpdan · Post by **dpdan** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:57 pm

Hi Andrew, I too make alot of orchestral mockups, and I use Altiverb 5.
I do not ewxperience the flatness that you are talking about, I too use DP and Giga for orchestral libraries.

Here is a direct A/B comparison I did between a real orchestra, and GPO (Garritan Personal Orchestra)

just for kicks...

Garritan comparison
http://www.garritan.com/mp3/Dvorakcompa ... ration.mp3

andrew feazelle · Post by **andrew feazelle** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 9:11 pm

Yeah, the verb sounds great in the comparison. Sounds like you put alot of work into the tune as well. How much memory does the altiverb take anyway? - heard it was kind of a hog and should mostly be applied durring final mix down.

See ya,

A Fez

dpdan · Post by **dpdan** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 11:23 pm

Hi Andrew,

Thank you for the nice compliments. I use one Altiverb while creating the MIDI portion of the production, and then once I record all the instruments to audio tracks, I then use either four or five Altiverbs. I have a G5 dual 2ghz desktop with 3.5 gigs of ram and these Altiverbs don't hurt it a bit.

I also always use the CPU management in Altiverb 5 set to -144db to give me the maximum length of the reverb tail. I think it's -144db, I don't have the Mac on right now, I'm finally goin' to bed.

Thanks again Andrew!
Dan