The Ravenscroft has 4 different recorded multisamples, 4 different stereo mic perspectives, and 4 slightly different mic responses / acoustic path tonalities, 4 different fidelities of impulse transient capture, 4 different mic-to-instrument location distances, 4 different sonic soundscapes to play with or mix together. You can tweak it: brighter vs darker, harder vs softer, dry & clean or wet & resonant, shape the EQ, bias your touch curve, etc., etc., etc., but it's all basically just re-moulding the behaviour of the same recorded multi-samples from one stereo microphone characteristic. If I remember correctly I had equal amount of both.Įxperience: I got a sound I liked, however when playing two handed it was a challenge to play the left hand stuff soft enough to just support the right hand, so I guess I need to do some more tweaking.The Ivory II American D Steinway is basically one stereo multi-sample set. Yesterday, when playing along with a brush drum track and a upright bass track, I used a hi shelf to roll off the high’s from about 1,2 k, and a bell curve to boost the low mid around 0,5 k.īlend the dry TG3 signal and the compressed signal to your liking.

I’m sure I could have used some of the Cubase stock compressors, too.įabfilter Pro-Q eq (a matter of taste and what will work in the mix. Anyway, on the group track, where the compression took place, I used the following inserts:įabfilter Pro-C compressor (radical settings: low threshold and high ratio, fast attack, release time set to auto). This is not an exact science and I didn’t tweak it to perfection, so don’t have the exact numbers. On this “summing” channel I added the send reverbs. In addition to what’s shown in the video, I used a second group channel to which I sent the output of both the dry TG3 and the compressed signal, enabling me to control the overall volume sent to the main stereo out with one fader. I now found this video that describes the technique I used:

Honestly, I couldn’t hear any difference between Player and Close view and ended up using Close (me think). I turned off TG’s built in reverb and EQ. The Steinway is much more open in the top, which is nice for a lot of things, I guess, but not for what I aimed for this time. I used the Bösendorfer, as I regarded this is the best starting point. I’m not in front of my computer at the monment so I might get some of the details wrong.

Ravenscroft 275 vs ivory ii