Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Is there any information on where each LOTR trilogy cue (other than the New Zealand Moria stuff) was recorded - at Watford, AIR, or Abbey Road? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Not that I'm aware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Is there any information on where each LOTR trilogy cue (other than the New Zealand Moria stuff) was recorded - at Watford, AIR, or Abbey Road?Weren't Abbey Road sessions exclusively devoted to choral sessions?We need Jim Ware on this!Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 19, 2015 Author Share Posted June 19, 2015 Yeah, it's definitely a Jim Ware question.You may be right about the choral stuff - although weren't at least a few of the big ones from ROTK done with the choir in the room at the same time at Watford? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted June 20, 2015 Author Share Posted June 20, 2015 ^ This could also be a Doug question, since I've seen him on today.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Is there any information on where each LOTR trilogy cue (other than the New Zealand Moria stuff) was recorded - at Watford, AIR, or Abbey Road?Weren't Abbey Road sessions exclusively devoted to choral sessions?KarolAIR was choral.weren't at least a few of the big ones from ROTK done with the choir in the room at the same time at Watford?You can hear Mount Doom without choir in the Use Well the Days documentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Bumping this up since Doug's been answering questions lately Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Adams 494 Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 No public documentation of every individual composition, but I can tell you that no site was exclusively orchestral or choral.Early on, Watford was used for both choral and orchestral--simultaneously, in fact, until the logistics of the room made it way too difficult to conduct. After that, it was mostly orchestral.Abbey was primarily choral, but a few orchestral sessions crept in there. Air was the same, though I believe the orchestra recorded the big Mumakil bit from ROTK there as well. (The cramped space led to the untimely death of a harp, as I've heard it told.) Henry Wood was used in a very limited capacity as well.D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,346 Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 What about private documentation of every composition? Any reason not to share some of that all these years later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted July 3, 2015 Author Share Posted July 3, 2015 Thanks Doug! I didn't know Henry Wood Hall was involved. Neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 Following up a bit on this - I wonder if Doug or Jim has any insight on John Kurlander's methods beyond the mic map/bit of discussion in the book. I'd be interested in what mics were used for what purposes, and particularly to what degree the spot mics (timpani, basses, low brass, winds) and room mics were relied on relative to the tree. Perhaps any information about the (presumably hardware) reverbs used to add that sometimes cavernous depth and tail? Just my mind wandering in some esoteric areas today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 High again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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