Hi
Here's some tips about Choir/Vocal recording
Choir recording
I picked up an Eq mag from 96 where Bruce Swedien
Says he usually puts the choir in a circle 30 feet wide, so the singers are 15 feet from a coincident pair(And xy where the diapragms are as close as possible) set to Omni. (He used Neumann M49)
The choir is standing and the mics are some 4-5 feet high around the mouth hight.He them let the room and distance of the choir set the balance.
Used in Michael Jacksons "Man in the mirror" from Bad and "Will you be there" from Dangerous.
..and more of the same from the excellent book "Recording Spaces" by Philip Newell
Moving musicians
It's principle is so obvious when you know about them, but there again, such is the case with many things.
*Use a stereo pair in a room with appropriate ambience.
If it's desired that two vocalists build up the sound of ten, then instead of grouping them around a a single microphone and pann the tracks into different locations in the stereo mix, a single stereo pair is used.
The vocalists then move into different locations for each take. Each stereo pair is then left panned hard left and right.
This leads to a sound more spacious, powerful and natural than, the "five panned monotracks approach"
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