Rodgers Theatre wrote:Hi. I am running a multi speaker set up on my 3/31 wurlitzer sample set. I was just wondering what peoples preference is on splitting the two chambers... ie: all main pipes balanced to the left speakers, and all solo pipes balanced to the right speakers. Up until now, i have had the balance set in the middle with speakers stacked up each side of the console, but tried earlier today balancing the chambers left, and right and it sounded pretty good ! i don't know if this is the normal thing people are doing, or whether people are just letting the sounds come from the left and the right speakers at the same time...? I have also tried pointing my speakers upwards instead of outwards to the listener, and this also seems to sound a bit more spacious.
Yours curiously,
Chris
Hi Chris.
My personal attitude to this (as well as some of my customers) is that we're trying to emulate a real pipe organ, so if possible, it should have the best traits of a real organ, just leaving out the really undesireable things.
In that case, if the sample set and your setup allows for it, I would always have at least one Main and one Solo 'chamber', then ponder on whether to enclose percussions or not, and if enclosed - put them in their own 'chamber'.
As your samples are WurliTzer and it's traditional for WurliTzer (and others) to have their chambers as Main=Left and Solo=Right, I would go that route.
There's nothing wrong with stereo samples, possibly in a diatonic config, but I think each 'chamber' should have its own 'spread' and if you have the space, let the mixing take place in air, preferably in the auditorium.
Obviously all of this depends on size of room, facilities available, sample set/s etc., but is a good basis to work from.