52 Cues - A Production Music Podcast
Your weekly insight into all things production music, library music, and sync licensing!
Hosted by Dave Kropf, a production music composer, podcaster, and educator based in Orlando, Florida.
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52 Cues - A Production Music Podcast
Is This Spanish Guitar Cue Ready for Sync?
Join me as we check out if this Spanish guitar cues from 52 Cues Family Member, Michal Pacalaj, is ready for sync!
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Wood is happening everybody. This is Dave Croft, and welcome back to another episode of Ready for Sink, where we feature a cue written by a member of the 52 Cues community and I give feedback, like you might hear from a library or a publisher, and we ask is my cue ready for sync? And today we are checking out Dreams of Catalonia by Michal Pazzalai, who is an amazing guitarist, and this was written for one of our 52 Cues Briefing Room Briefs, which is a feature of the family member subscription, and so we're going to take a listen to, we're going to take a listen to Dreams of Catalonia and then we'll talk about it on the other side. So that was Dreams of Catalonia by Michal Pazzalai. Michal, thank you so much for sending this along. This was sent along during our week 49 weekly feedback threads. But Michal also wrote this for the 52 Cues Briefing Room, which is a feature of the family subscription, and we got a brief from from one of my publishers who works with CBS. They needed a show opener for a golf documentary and so we put the the brief into the briefing room and had some folks submit and man, michal absolutely crushed it. You know just when I think that I have kind of a bead on the level of talent we have in the 52 Cues community. I am blown away.
Speaker 1:The submissions, all the submissions, for this brief or stellar, and Michal hit it out of the park with this. The brief asked for a lead Spanish guitar but with some kind of overtones, or not overtones, but some orchestral orchestrations, just some light pads, because this was we're pitching this for a show opener for an upcoming documentary and so super exposed, which meant that we could not use MIDI. The library said no, midi, it has to be live guitar. And so you know, as much as I love my virtual instruments, there's something about a good Mid, a good recorded performance, that will always surpass MIDI. And all of the guys in the community crushed it. Little, little hint, kind of the pad in the background. It's not too in the in your face and it's really exposed and that is. That's a really courageous place to be. It's just you, your guitar, it's about your skill, it's about your recording setup, it's about your, your post-production techniques. Because they did it. I didn't mix this, I didn't master it, this is all Mikhail and Just did a remarkable job, builds up a little bit, some castanets, you know, because it's Spanish. Some light strings come in just supporting Another really exposed section.
Speaker 1:And I told Mikhail and the and the other folks who submitted to this brief, the brief that gets chosen, if one of these submissions gets chosen, it will not be because of execution, it will be because of creative choice, and each of these submissions were different and Mikhail's absolutely stood out. You had about a minute and 15 to work with, said what you needed to say and I wanted to feature this because you know he submitted it up into the community and I kind of wanted, I kind of wanted him to take a victory lap here. It is so good. I'm so proud of all the, all the work that the folks do over there and I'm really proud of Mikhail, who hails from the Czech Republic and it just goes to show you that you know we are truly in a global space here. The community has people from all over the world and to be able to, on a in the middle of the week, say hey, publishers looking for this, and then folks in Switzerland, folks in Charlotte, north Carolina, folks in Germany and folks in the Czech Republic, they all answer the call and they submit up and I'm just really proud, proud of Mikhail, thank you so much for sending this along.
Speaker 1:If you would like feedback on your own cues, then head over to ismyqreadycom and I'll be able to answer. Is your cue ready as far as dreams of Catalonia is? Is this cue ready 100% In fact? I know it's ready because I've already sent it up to the publisher. But we'd love, we'd love, to have you over in the community and if, if you're wanting to write to, to real briefs from real libraries and join us over at the 52 cues family, we'd love to have you. But that's gonna do it for me this week. Until next time, peace.
