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19 guitarists, a perfect blend based on a series of test sessions; charangos, mandolins, ukuleles were placed in pairs between ribbon microphones around the hall at Air Studios. It has to be heard to be understood.
Christian was commissioned to write a film in September 2014. A film that was operatic in its expanse with acres of space, time and air to let the score sing. Always a fan of the work of Terence Malick, Christian observed arcing fields of barley, a climax which filled a film lense with exploding teardrops of rain. How best to create something unique to illustrate these chaotic patterns of beauty? So Spitfire carried out a test with a group of guitarists playing all around the hall at Air. The results were sublime, from a beautiful patina of plucked notes to a jet of long tones created by a multitude of chaotic un-measured trems played by players all over the room. The combination of sublime players, sublime instruments and an expansive room, proved a heady mix.
Whilst the upper dynamic layers provided shocking drama and definition it was the quieter and quietest layers that offered most intrigue, so with the idea of having a total surround effect of players, this posed difficulties with the micing. Jake Jackson attacked this challenge with gusto, elevating a second tree and third ambient and outrigger so there is a perfect symmetry between every player. Whats more, by playing the guitarists in pairs either side of a coles 4038, the players became their own reflection filters providing a shockingly dry signal with these figure of eight mics.
The sessions ended on a hair raising set of slowly peeled chords. When combined with Blake's excellent scripting and our gang of multi-decorated programmers, producers and composers we're sure you'll agree that Swarm is inspiration out-of-the-box, of a very very special kind.
Spitfire Audio has curated a useful set of articulations with this extraordinary band with multiple dynamic layers and round robins. The players were placed in three waves: the first 7 huddled around the first tree, the second 6 around the second tree, and the third 6 guitarists in each gallery quadrant.
One of the key areas of interest with this instrument type is the tremolandi. You have control not only of the dynamic level of these extraordinary long articulations but also the speed. From a gentle trickle to a haze of notes. Whats more we have two sets of measured trem that depending on the application can sync to your host tempo with differing levels of tightness.
We provide a series of detailed mixing options that allow you to dry the sound up or make it more ambient, whilst preserving the acoustic integrity and perspective of a consistent microphone set up and room configuration. The instruments are all sampled in great detail but designed to play easily out-of-the-box, with simple integration into larger arrangements and templates without risk of demanding too much from your system resources.
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