PHILOSOPHY OF SAMPLE RECORDING

There are many approaches to recording pipe organ sample sets. Here is my philosophy of organ recording.

My aim is NOT to create a virtual "perfect" organ, because that does not exist anywhere! I know that some sample set producers' goal is to have the largest organ, with the more stops, and to provide many temperament tunings of the organ, etc. This is done even to the extent of modifying much samples and adding features that do not exist on the real organ!

The purpose here is, at the contrary, to provide samples that are as close as possible to the real sound of the pipe organ that has been recorded. I think that the less you modify the sound, the more you respect the authenticity of a real historical organ that was built by a famous organ builder.

RECORDING GEAR

The sampling of these soundbanks have been made with the help of Philippe Ozanne with the following equipment : DAT recorder Teac DA-P20, condenser microphone, Sound Blaster Live!.