[Scott Dorsey]

James wrote:
On Oct 20, 10:43=A0pm, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

How did you mike them? =A0

Well, "them" is me. As for how, Marshall MXL mic at various distances
from the bell of the horn.

Did you do one horn in each pass, or two
horns? =A0Did you move them around a bit?

One pass per track. Changing the angle to the mic doesn't seem to be
the magic bullet.

Changing the distance will help. But the real key is to keep layering more
and more on.

Some good players CAN be locked right in during overdubs,
What I was getting at when I mentioned this is the phasiness seems to
occur because of the slight variations of intonation, but no players
are ever perfectly in tune, which is what makes them sound like a
section. The problem seems to be something to do with the fact that
the origin of the sound is sonically separate, instead of being
recorded at the same time.

No, because you can sometimes hear two performers doing the same thing live.

I just found that adding a 3rd horn to the unison line seems to help
quite a bit. Apparently it somehow masks or breaks up the phasing
effect.

Oh, I didn't realize you were only doing two layers. Try a minimum of
five.
--scott
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