tmyoung wrote:What a lovely console and setup! (And fantastic playing in all of the videos!) Everything sounds really good! You've done an amazing job!
I'm curious to know more about which presets you normally use. It sounds like the first videos are probably both using one of the "French Romantic" presets with something like Neresheim and Versailles as the presets third and fourth videos, but that's only a guess on my part.
Are there presets which you've found work better for services than others?
For my setup, I normally just do Widor as a "set it and forget it" preset, but I should probably be more adventurous in my choices within a giving program or service. I find that I'm really careful in planning my registration but less varied in which presets I use for a project/performance/recital/recording, so I'm really interested in what works for other people and in other contexts (while I try to remind myself that I need to do more with that).
Do you mix and match presets to make your own or do you stay mainly with the stock presets that Organteq comes with?
Also, do you turn off the internal reverb engine, lower the reverb settings, or keep the reverb the way it is for each preset?
Thank you very much for the kind comments.
An important feature of Organteq is its very intuitive interface.
Up till now our organ has been tested by three organists.
Well, all three understood immediately how to use the touch screen and began to test all available presets (which I configured for our setup) and to test different stops and coupler configurations.
In the YouTube videos (recorded last Saturday) I know for sure that the organist chose the Versailles Royal Chapel preset for the Clérambault pieces. For the two Bach pieces he has chosen German organ presets, whereas for the Haendel he has probably chosen a Baroque Cathedral preset.
In the (older) videos posted in the Album "Andrei's Organ" (published on iCloud) I know for sure that the organist chose the Versailles Royal Chapel, and then the fabulous Arnstadt preset (Bach's Organ).
No, I don't mix and match presets! Up till now we have only used the default presets which came with Organteq. Such sophisticated changes (mixing-matching presets or creating new presets by changing individually the sound of certain pipes) can only be made by a professional organist. Myself I am not an organist at all. I am just a hobby digital organ builder. Moreover, the church doesn't have its own organist yet.
We invite organists to visit our church and test the organ. They test the setup for several hours (not longer), and they start playing immediately ! They are very happy that they can handle so easily stop configurations and couplers and that they choose different presets. But up till now they have not tried to create new presets.
The only changes I made in the standard configurations: I have just changed the Reverb option from "Church" to "Cathedral" in some presets, but I am not sure if in the recordings the two organists used those presets. I will check it carefully next Sunday.
Concerning the sound: when you are in the church, you feel the sound coming from everywhere. This is because I installed two (synchronised) powerful stereo systems, one at the front and one at the back of the church (at about 3m heigh). The subwoofers from the back are so powerful that sometimes I feel the wooden box under my mixer (used for recordings) vibrating when the organ plays deep bass notes.
Best regards,
Andrei
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