On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 16:27:29 GMT, (hank alrich)
wrote:

What do the singers say?

If they knew this question wouldn't have come up. And in many
professional situations the producer will determine how this will be
done so that the final effect fits nicely into somebody's vision of the
final product. Singers I work with are happy to approach it anyway I ask
them to.

A problem often in less experienced situations is that nobody has a
vision of a final product. Another problem can be having the session
player direct the engineering. If it's Ry Cooder then it could make
sense to hear out his idea of tarcking himself. If it's one of my local
yokels that could lead to disaster.


"Usually I like to track one singer at a time or mic individually but
this group wants to sing together in the same room"

Sounds like they have at least some idea of what they want to do
artistically.

I often wonder, was it a musician or a recording engineer who first
thought it would be better to track voices or instruments separately?
Good musicians can develop techniques that make music from this highly
un-musical situation. Lesser ones get into terrible problems.
Needing rescue by the bloody engineers who suggested working this way
in the first place ;-)

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