Live recording problem

[Office]

I am not a recordist but have been asked if I have any ideas to solve a
problem.
Situ: Live recording of a vocalist
Sound assistant has been told to give the vocalist a bit of reverb
However, since making that change - we can clearly hear the vocalist taking
breaths - we couldnt hear this before
The setup is pretty simple and its not compression pumping (I dont even
think they have a compressor)

What gives?

Russell

[Richard Crowley]

"Office" wrote ...
>I am not a recordist but have been asked if I have any ideas to solve a
> problem.
> Situ: Live recording of a vocalist

Does this mean that you are recording a live performance
to an audience?

> Sound assistant has been told to give the vocalist a bit of reverb

Does "sound assistant" mean the person running the
venue sound reinforcement system? Is this "bit of reverb"
for sound reinforcement for the audience, or is it meant
for the recording?

Can you set up a separate recording microphone?
Or get a feed from the microphone signal before
they apply any effects? (Such as from an "insert"
connector, etc.)

> However, since making that change - we can clearly hear the vocalist
> taking
> breaths - we couldnt hear this before

Assuming nothing else has changed?, position of the
vocalist and/or the microphone, different performance, etc?

Could it be possible that the "bit of reverb" is enhancing
the breath sounds that went unnoticed before? Can you
try turning off the reverb (in a rehearsal, for example) to
establish that the breath sounds are really related to the
"bit of reverb"?

In any case, it is usually considered better to record without
any real-time special effects (assuming there will be some
post-recording attention to the recording before release.)

Only generic advice in the absence of better detail.

[Scott Dorsey]

Office > wrote:
>I am not a recordist but have been asked if I have any ideas to solve a
>problem.
>Situ: Live recording of a vocalist
>Sound assistant has been told to give the vocalist a bit of reverb
>However, since making that change - we can clearly hear the vocalist taking
>breaths - we couldnt hear this before
>The setup is pretty simple and its not compression pumping (I dont even
>think they have a compressor)

How did you add the reverb? Did you change the miking, or did you use
an artificial reverb box? If it was an artificial box, what was it?
--scott

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