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Try to find the sweet spot in each and give it a little EQ boost, while cutting that from the other tracks. Also, cut areas where the tracks have no contribution, e.g. below 100hz for vox/guitar, and above 10khz for the guitar (e.g., you'll have to play with it). A more advanced trick is to use side-chaining compression between the vocals and one or both ...

The entire clip you provided is performed on a synthesizer which begins with a bowed cello like setting in the lower register accenting the first beat while a pizzicato double bass plays the next 7 beats. This repeats, so by the 3rd time the cello like instrument sounds at 0:15 a melodic element is introduced which might be best described as a combination of ...

For a solo acoustic instrument recording, I would find a nice-sounding room and try to capture the whole performance with a stereo mic setup. By "nice-sounding", I mean No noticeable external noise sources (traffic, air conditioning/heat, etc) "live" (reverberant) but not too live. You can damp liveness with carpets, furniture, etc. Not so small as to ...

Go figure... ask a certain number of audiophiles a question and you'll get an equal number of answers. Here's my take: The dulcimer, like the piano, is a percussion instrument which has two basic tonal elements going on. You have the initial strike of the hammer and then the resonant response of the string/chamber/soundboard. When afforded the luxury, I ...

Have a look at Native Instruments Session Strings which is a sample based VSTi of a string ensemble, which has built in "articulations", including "scoops/falls" specifically targetted at creating 70s disco sounds. There is also Session Strings Pro which has a much larger sample library and a few extra features

The classic "70's" string sound is the Arp String Ensemble. It is featured in such songs as "Babe" by Styx. This plugin (stringer) might do the trick: http://freemusicsoftware.org/category/free-vst/strings. There are also other plugins in that page you can try. If you are looking for more realistic string sounds, and don't want to purchase an enormous ...