Mercury Micro is a compact starter edition of our acclaimed Mercury Symphonic Boys’ Choir library. This slice of a tradi-tional English boy’s choral ensemble library includes piano and forte versions of thesustaining and staccato articulations of two important vowels: “Ah” and “Oo.” It also includes two sustaining, tempo-sync-able word articulations from Christian liturgy, “Kyrie” and “Eleison.”  

The Mercury Boys’ Choir captures the youth and purity of a full boy’s choral ensemble consisting of 25 singers ages 8 to 13. We  recorded  Mercury  in  the  same  large  hall  that  our  Olympus  Symphonic  Choir,  Apocalypse  Percussion  Ensemble, Montclarion Grand Piano and many other Soundiron libraries were captured. The hall gives it a bright and open sound with just the right touch of transparent natural reverberation.  

Our custom scripted Kontakt user interface gives you flexible control features, like attack, release, transient start offset, dy-namic swelling, stereo panorama, and dynamic layer blending. There’s also an EQ, simulated Vibrato control, and a reverb panel with dozens of life-like spaces and creative FX convolution impulse responses.  

The library comes equipped with 3 standard instrument presets, each focusing on a category of choral articulations. Also included are 17 special FX presets that demonstrate the creative possibilities of this compact yet powerful library. These FX presets are exclusive to Mercury Micro and each offers a unique sonic flavor all its own. Mercury Boys' Choir Micro is made for the free Kontakt Player (5.6.8+) and Komplete Kontrol by Native Instruments.

In the full Mercury Symphonic Boy’s Choir, you’ll also find 2 mixable microphone positions, true legato, more vowels and 42 unique words with both sustaining and staccato varieties. Mercury Micro owners can upgrade to the full Mercury Symphonic Boy’s Choir any time they like, making this a great introduction to the world of Mercury.

Mercury Boys' Choir Micro

Craig Peters demo is a track using the sounds from Hyperion Strings Ensemble blended with other libraries.

This classical string scoring solution brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Craig Peters - Unleash The Necromorphs - Hyperion Strings Ensemble

Chris Cutting's demo is a track using the sounds from Hyperion Strings Ensemble blended with other libraries.

This classical string scoring solution brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Chris Cutting - 1 And 2 - Soundiron Hyperion Strings Ensemble

This examples are using only the sounds of Hyperion Strings Ensemble.

This classical string scoring solution brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Close Mics Trem And Shorts (Library Only) - Soundiron Hyperion Strings Ensemble

This example is using only the sounds of Hyperion Strings Ensemble.  

This orchestral string library brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Stage Mic Legato (Library Only) - Soundiron Hyperion Strings Ensemble

This example is using only the sounds of Hyperion Strings Ensemble.

This classical string scoring solution brings brilliant sound, vast content and adaptive performance control into one powerful package with 1st & 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Basses and a huge selection of long & short articulations, legato, portamento, dynamic expressions and aleatoric effects in 4 mic positions.

Far Mic Swells (Library Only) - Soundiron Hyperion Strings Ensemble

Brandon Kootnekoff's demo uses a combination of sounds from Sick Ultimate blended with other libraries.

Sick Ultimate includes 8 libraries covering a huge range of disturbing SFX, atmospheres, instruments and special effects. It features over 17,000 samples, 20+ GB of sample content and 169 nki presets with advanced GUI features and sound design tools.



Dark Summoning

Thawing into motion, ever rising to the breaking point

Spanner

The ever pressure of time, not running out, just running. Momentum forces expression. Time is all that lets us speak. 

This is a song made with the Korg Module version of Soundiron Voice Of Rapture - The Soprano, using only the chromatic articulations and effects. The drums are from Soundiron's Knockout Drum. The bass line is Fab Filter Twin. No other sounds or instruments used.

Speaks

Mercury Micro is a compact starter edition of our acclaimed Mercury Symphonic Boys’ Choirlibrary. This slice of a tradi-tional English boy’s choral ensemble library includes piano and forte versions of thesustaining and staccato articulations of two important vowels: “Ah” and “Oo.” It also includes two sustaining, tempo-sync-able word articulations from Christian liturgy, “Kyrie” and “Eleison.”

The Mercury Boys’ Choir captures the youth and purity of a full boy’s choral ensemble consisting of 25 singers ages 8 to 13. We recorded Mercury in the same large hall that our Olympus Symphonic Choir, Apocalypse Percussion Ensemble, Montclarion Grand Piano and many other Soundiron libraries were captured. The hall gives it a bright and open sound with just the right touch of transparent natural reverberation.

Our custom scripted Kontakt user interface gives you flexible control features, like attack, release, transient start offset, dy-namic swelling, stereo panorama, and dynamic layer blending. There’s also an EQ, simulated Vibrato control, and a reverb panel with dozens of life-like spaces and creative FX convolution impulse responses.

The library comes equipped with 3 standard instrument presets, each focusing on a category of choral articulations. Also included are 17 special FX presets that demonstrate the creative possibilities of this compact yet powerful library. These FX presets are exclusive to Mercury Micro and each offers a unique sonic flavor all its own. Mercury Micro built for the full ver-sion of Native Instruments Kontakt 5.5.2 and later.

In the full Mercury Symphonic Boy’s Choir, you’ll also find 2 mixable microphone positions, true legato, more vowels and 42 unique words with both sustaining and staccato varieties. Mercury Micro owners can upgrade to the full Mercury Symphonic Boy’s Choir any time they like, making this a great introduction to the world of Mercury.

Benedict Nichols - Sunlight's Kiss (Dressed) - Soundiron Mercury Micro

Brad Jerkins - In The Mourning (Dressed) - Soundiron Mercury Micro

Chris Cutting - Arise (Dressed) - Soundiron Mercury Micro

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Roman Heuser - Mystic Bridge (Dressed) - Soundiron Mercury Micro

Si Begg - Micro (Dressed) - Soundiron Mercury Micro

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I'm always looking to shrink the size and weight of my rig. I just love carrying the minimum amount of equipment!  I did this test to see how small I could go with microphone separation without sacrificing quality. All configurations were Clippy EM172 stereo pair to Sony PCM-A10.

My conclusion is that AB40cm rig with simple Rycote lav wind protection gives me a great sound with a very small and light footprint but not great wind protection. The quasi-binaural rig gives perhaps a more accurate stereo field with the advantage of excellent wind protection (it is housed in the equivalent of a blimp with proper windjammer). To get better wind protection for the AB40cm rig would require a massive and heavy (by my standards) blimp.

1. AB20cm - narrow, too narrow...
2. AB30cm - getting wider, pretty nice...
3. AB40cm - wider still but nice balance of width and centre-image?
4. AB60cm - very wide but hole in the middle?
5. Quasi-binaural (20cm spacing with foam cylinder baffles) - improved placement of sounds in the stereo field?

Would be very interested to hear what other folks think. Please comment if you care to.

Omni Spacing Test

Soundiron LLC is co-owned and operated by Mix Foundation TEC Award (2007) winning and BAFTA nominated Sound Designer/Audio Engineers Mike Peaslee and Gregg Stephens, and technology, scripting and systems wizard Christopher Marshall. 

We're a premium instrument sample library and virtual instrument software design, production and publishing company, specializing in choral and epic scoring instruments and percussion, pianos, drums, ethnic instruments, professional sound effect libraries and inventive experimental sample collections. 

We specifically gear our libraries toward seasoned pros and working musicians in the film, television, advertising, video game, and music recording arts but we commit ourselves to bringing all users, from veteran to beginner, the same deep quality, outstanding customer service and low prices. 

With over 40 unique products and new releases every month, you'll always find something awesome at Soundiron.

If you’d like to check out current user demo submissions, look for their name to the right in the track title in the Soundcloud Player. 

You can see credits for the non-user submitted demos on our Soundcloud page, by clicking the Song Title to go to the track page, where you can see track info. 

For demo submission guidelines and information, visit here: http://www.soundiron.com/demo-submissions/



Benedict Nichols - Sunlight's Kiss (Dressed) - Soundiron Mercury Micro

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