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Royer Labs microphones used for ‘Joy’ music score

Royer Labs microphones used for ‘Joy’ music score

Released on Christmas Day 2015, the 20th Century Fox film ‘Joy’ was one of the big hits of this past holiday season. To help record the music score for the film, recording engineer and scoring mixer Jason LaRocca of Los Angeles was brought into the project by music arranger/composer David Campbell, who was scoring the film with composer West Dylan Thordson. A selection of ribbon microphones drawn from the catalog of Burbank, CA-based Royer Labs were placed into service.

 

“In addition to recording and mixing the music score for ‘Joy’,” LaRocca explains, “there were also a number of on-screen performances that were sung by Jennifer Lawrence and other cast members. Hence, we were dealing with multiple music styles throughout the film. We recorded the score at the end of October 2015 at the FOX Newman Scoring Stage in Los Angeles. There were also a number of piano and other instrument overdub sessions that took place at Capitol Studios as well as David Campbell's living room. I used quite a few Royer ribbons for these various sessions, including an R-121, three R-122Vs, four SF-1s, and an SF-24 stereo ribbon.”

 

“I used three Royer 122Vs as a Decca Tree to capture the overall sound of the orchestra,” LaRocca continues. “I used the SF-1s as string spot mics and an R-121 as a single overhead microphone above the woodwind section. I also used a Royer SF-24 over the vibraphone player. I set up two sets of microphones on almost all of the instruments in the orchestra - both ribbons, as well as condensers - so that I could change the sound of the orchestra simply by changing my microphone choices in the mix, depending on what mood we wanted for the scene.”

 

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