soundhaspriority wrote:

Another suggestion might be to use a more neutral mike, but add a chest
mike. Or try pulling the mike back and dropping it down to get more
of the chest voice. Even something like an RE-20 is fine for this.

Interesting. Is this technique akin to using the human body as a boundary
surface, or is there actually radiation from the chest? Where does the mic
go? At approximately the level of the collar bone, 15" out?

There is substantial radiation from the chest. (This is for singers,
not crooners). Where the mike goes depends on the singer and how you
want to balance things, but use the finger-in-the-ear trick and give
a listen for yourself.

You'll find this is more a big deal for basses than baritones, more for
baritones than tenors, and folks that use their head voice (sopranos,
countertenors), don't have much at all from the chest. Crooners, who
aren't trying to project, tend to sing from much farther up and don't
have so much chest radiation.

Usually pulling the mike back will get enough of this, unless you're
using a very tight microphone or are forced (by virtue of having a lousy
room) to mike in closely.

Take a look at some of the photos of the PA rig for the Three Tenors.
Each of the guys have two Schoeps cardioids, one on the mouth and one
a bit below breastbone level.
--scott

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