Gang Vocals?

[Cody Suit]

i was wondering how to go about recording gang vocals (kinda like a choir but singing to the recorded music) without doing each singer one track at a time cuz it always loses its effect that way. would i have to get headphones for everyone and just use a few condensers? or could i just let them listen to the monitors and sing?

[ez_willis]

Originally Posted by Cody Suit

would i have to get headphones for everyone and just use a few condensers? or could i just let them listen to the monitors and sing?

Either way is perfectly legal. You could also just use one omni and have them sing into it. Depends on what fits.

[Raw-Tracks]

Just gather everyone around one mic, preferably omni. If you can't provide headphones for the gang, you can do it in front of the monitors. In that case, you might have better results using a cardiod, or better yet, a figure-eight with the null pointed at the monitors. Do a few passes for a double and triple. It will make the gang even bigger.

[pietro79]

Stereo mic'ing allows you to surround the listener amidst the gang-voical-ing.

But single micing will, of course, make it more of a focused group...

Perhaps I'm saying obvious things...

[Raw-Tracks]

Originally Posted by pietro79

Stereo mic'ing allows you to surround the listener amidst the gang-voical-ing.

But single micing will, of course, make it more of a focused group...

Perhaps I'm saying obvious things...

Doing 2 passes in mono can actually achieve a greater stereo effect than one pass in stereo. In either scenario you have the same numebr of vocalists in the group. By stereo mic'ing the group, you will have half the group on one track, the other half on the the second track. By doing 2 mono passes, you will achieve a sense of a larger group. You can still pan the 2 mono tracks to achieve stereo if you wish.