Extension for brass. The right complement to CineBass Core and Professional, the Cinebrass Descant Horn expands the vary of the brass part. Professional Horn Gamers typically pull this instrument out for mild greater passes, and it’s nice for hovering solos. Like Cinebrass Core and Professional, Cinebrass Descant Horn was recorded on the legendary MGM Corridor at Sony Footage Studios in Los Angeles.
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What’s the Descant Horn?
The Descant Horn and French Horn have the same construction. The Descant Horn doesn’t have the low F facet of a daily horn, nevertheless it does have the excessive F facet. Particularly, the tubes are solely 6 toes lengthy slightly than 12 toes lengthy as on a typical French horn. So, the harmonic collection is offset by an octave above the conventional F2 on a typical horn.
The Descant Horn and French Horn have the same construction. The Descant Horn doesn’t have the low F facet of a daily horn, nevertheless it does have the excessive F facet. Particularly, the tubes are solely 6 toes lengthy slightly than 12 toes lengthy as on a typical French horn. So, the harmonic collection is offset by an octave above the conventional F2 on a typical horn.
What’s the vary distinction between the Descant Horn and French Horn?
The ranges of the horns are mainly the identical, though you possibly can prolong the Descant Horn to an A or Ab slightly than stopping at an F on a daily horn. So, though the Descant Horn doesn’t essentially go greater, the timbre of the upper register is offset by an octave permitting extra agility within the higher register.
What is exclusive about this Descant Horn?
The horn we sampled is a dual-bore Bb/Excessive F. Due to this fact, transferring between the bore for the Bb facet to the excessive F is sonically seamless. The distinction in dimension between the Descant Horn we sampled and different single bore Descant Horns is substantial, accounting for the double bore. It additionally permits the performer elevated agility whereas switching between the edges.
Because of this, a single-bore Descant Horn doesn’t sound nearly as good as a double-bore from about center C down. Even center C to a excessive C above center C would sound extra shallow and it wouldn’t have the wealthy royal sound of the dual-bore Descant Horn.
How does the Descant Horn sound in comparison with a French Horn?
The higher register is extra strident on a daily horn, whereas the higher register sounds simpler and lighter on the Descant Horn. An analogy can be the comparability between a daily trumpet vs. a piccolo trumpet. For the reason that two devices have mainly the identical vary, the most important distinction is within the higher register. The piccolo trumpet has a much less strident sound than a conventional trumpet.
Additionally, the Descant Horn isn’t going to be fairly as deep – it’s somewhat extra shallow and delicate in comparison with the Low F of a French horn. However ideally, you wouldn’t use a Descant Horn for its decrease register since that’s not its candy spot.
What’s the benefit of the Descant Horn for the participant?
When a passage is simply too excessive and required to be delicate and delicate, the participant can change to the Descant Horn so as to attain these pitches extra simply with out having to pound so arduous. From a participant’s perspective, it makes higher register passages a lot simpler to play and rather more correct.
What’s the benefit of the Descant Horn for the composer?
Composers can obtain a better quantity of delicacy and accuracy within the higher register of the Descant Horn. After all, if a composer is in search of a brilliant highly effective excessive register sound, that will be higher fitted to a daily French horn. However for delicate solos, particularly over strings and woodwinds, utilizing the descant horn may be very helpful.
