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Early reflections, positioning and panning

Another question about panning, if my 2nd violins are recorded panned to the left, but I want to use them on the right side, placing them right in the field wouldn't make desired effect. How to swap stereo so it is sounding like it's recorded from the right side? So then I can place it corectly on the right side afterwards.
There’s a trick for that - I think it’s swapping Left and Right of the stereo signal.

You can probably use the free program Audacity for it.
 
Another question about panning, if my 2nd violins are recorded panned to the left, but I want to use them on the right side, placing them right in the field wouldn't make desired effect. How to swap stereo so it is sounding like it's recorded from the right side? So then I can place it corectly on the right side afterwards.
As mentioned, the best way to do this is to flip the stereo image. I do this pretty often myself... If your DAW doesn't have a plugin that makes this possible there are tons of free options, for example A1StereoControl, or UltimUtility.
 
Beat Kaufmann has some tutorials regarding instruments positioning, maybe these can help:



You can find other tutorials on his web page (most for VSL)
 
look for a reverb that has two distinct sections of control. Cinematic rooms is perfect for this.

In Orchestral settings there are really 3 blocks. Strings, then WW, then Brass and Perc.

Strings you want close:

CR STRINGS.PNG

WW sit behind:

CR WW.PNG

And brass Further back still

BRASS.PNG

Finally you want a Touch of hall ( with less reflections) to blend the lot together:

HALL.PNG

Strings and Brass have no tail , just a smidge in WW . They are JUST the reflections. The strings are closer and smaller. Each subsequent room is slightly bigger and further back. The 224 Just adds tail.

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Why do you add tail on WW? And is each group sent to the hall equally or differing per layer?
 
Why do you add tail on WW? And is each group sent to the hall equally or differing per layer?
well you add a tail on everything. That's the one thing that's constant . So you place the instruments in the room by the ratio of dry to early reflection. Then add Tail ( again by varying amounts , less to close instruments more to distant)

it works

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