This is an instrumentation and mix of the 1st movement - Presto - of Haydn's String Quartet Op 1 No. 4 in G major. I did this mainly as a test of VSL solo strings being driven directly from Notion.

Using the MIDI file graciously provided to Classical Archives by Steven E. Edwards, I imported that MIDI to Notion, cleaned up the score where needed and used the VSL SE Solo Strings to instrument. 

I then added dynamics, did some further mixing in Notion with Flux's Stereo Tool, Waves Trueverb (for early reflections and early cross-reflections), Melda EQ for EQ on each instrument and the master, a *hint* of saturation on the viola using, ahem :-D , Headcrusher (!) and then added specific hall characteristics from the National Center for Early Music in York in Waves IR-L using the IR file found at the link below. The reverb and room sizes were matched with the Trueverb at 1.3s and the reverb position was # 14. 

A touch of L1-Ultramaximizer was added to bring the final level up slightly.

My thanks to Michael Myers of Tensivity and Gordon Groo Barrie for listening to early mixes and giving feedback. Much appreciated. Thank you sirs! :-) 

The reverb IR files can be found here: http://www.openairlib.net/auralizationdb/content/st-margarets-church-national-centre-early-music

The original MIDI can be found here: http://www.classicalarchives.com/midi/composer/2679.html

Haydn String Quartet in G Major. Op 1 No. 4. Presto.

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