This is what one singer says:
After doing 1000's of sessions, I can't remember more than 1 mic for group
3.
I find when doing backs, keep one can off, so you can HEAR the other
singers, and blend.
With solos I keep both cans on.

Tom


"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 07:15:00 GMT, (hank alrich)
wrote:

In this lifetime I have found that BGV's work out much better when _not_
tracked individually, but recorded ensemble. Nothing the computer will
do can replace what happens _in the air_ when voices are allowed to
blend in a natural way. This happens to be the _natural_ activity, and
the poster was wanting advice on recording vocals. Some folks have their
heads so far up their computers they don't have their ears in the room
where the people are _singing_.


What do the singers say? Do they prefer to have a mic each, monitor
the mix through cans? Or do they prefer to make an "acoustic" mix,
monitoring just the backing track with "one ear off"? Or a
combination of the two? Your prime consideration is getting the
optimum performance out of them. Then think where you want to stick
the microphones to capture it.

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