TESTIMONIAL • ORCHESTRA
WALLY BADAROU
COMPOSER
THE STORY BEHIND WALLY'S ORCHESTRA SESSION
Wally Badarou, a musician from Benin won a 1 Minute live recording in the course of our Open Orchestra Recording Sessions and was happy to take advantage of our comprehensive service. We took care of everything: the organization, the orchestration, the recording, the final mix. Read on to see how everything was done in 4 simple steps.
STEP 1: MOCKUP
The only thing Wally had to do was sending us an MP3 file of his track along with a MIDI file. Take a listen to the MP3 mockup.
STEP 2: SCORES & PARTS
Dynamedion’s orchestrators write the final score based on the MP3 and MIDI file.
STEP 3: THE LIVE RECORDING
Dynamedion arranges the recordings with the orchestra.
In this case, the recordings have been realized with the German state-owned orchestra of Brandenburg. Listen to the really beautiful final recordings:
STEP 4: FINAL MIX
Shortly after the recordings, Dynamedion delivers the final mix, either as a stereo mix or as multi-track version.
Wally Badarou about his track and the recording session:
I am a self-taught french rock/jazz/funk artist of african origin (Benin), mostly known (in Europe) for my work with britfunk band Level 42, but with eclecticism ranging from african to classical music, and anything in between.
This movement is an excerpt from “Vesuvio Solo”, featured on “Words Of A Mountain” (Island/Universal), an electronic album that I devoted to mountains around the globe, the universal wisdom gatekeepers. It is my most cherished work to this date. It was one of the first tapeless albums ever recorded. That was back in 1987, at “Studio W” home-studio, Compass Point, Nassau, Bahamas.
It involved a New England Digital’s Synclavier II PSMT system, and early MOTU’s Performer sequencer running on Apple Macintosh SE-30, both controlling an impressive array of tone modules via MIDI exclusively. All synths were mixed through an Allen & Heath Brenell 20-channel desk directly to a Sony PCM-F1 digital stereo system, no tape machine in between, and absolutely no sampling involved (neither Digital Performer, nor ProTools existed yet).
Tone modules consisted of Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Oberheim OB8, Yamaha TX-816s, Korg DVP-1, and Synclavier’s own FM modules. Lexicon PCM-70 was the only reverb unit used throughout the album.
