11-12-2020, 02:42 AM
(11-10-2020, 09:57 AM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: After som going back and forth I finally went for Hollywood Brass Gold. Very happy with it so far, sounds amazing and PLAY runs remarkably well!
Good choice! Hollywood Brass is the best of the Hollywood series by far imho! If you are in the position to crossgrade to Diamond at some point, I'd recommend it, and not because of the extra mics really. The default mic in the Gold edition ('Mid') is NOT the default mic in Diamond ('Main'), and the Main position imho sounds better than the Mid position. I bought Hollywood Woodwinds Gold and almost never use them because I really dislike the 'Mid' position, but the 'Main' position with strings and brass is great.
BTW, word of warning about Hollywood Strings: they cut all the shorts too short but didn't properly fade them, so they cut off before they've faded out. It's really jarring unless you bury it in reverb and are using them as part of a full ensemble (which I guess is the point, and is fine). In all honesty I like the spiccatos in EWQL SO much better despite it literally being 20 years old; they just cut so nice and aggressively the way they processed them.
I would recommend Orchestral Tools for Woodwinds for sure if you ever look for some. I don't have any of their products yet, but I spent a long time listening to solo playthroughs of various libraries a few months back and liked theirs a lot, and they seem to be making some budget stuff now too which is nice for the ecosystem. Was really not impressed by Spitfire on the other hand; I used to like their stuff a lot but it doesn't seem to be holding up anymore. I listened to the BBC orchestra playthroughs and I thought their old flagship orchestral line (was British Modular, no idea what it is now) was much better in almost all aspects.
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