karambos2
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I'm recording an a capella outfit at the moment.
For example, at the moment I've been recording 5 singers with two mics. Later, I'll do it properly (i.e. one singer per track) but at the moment it's two mics: a Neumann TLM103 and an AKG SolidTube. The boys (bass, contrabass and tenor) mostly through the Nuemann and the girls (alto and soprano) mostly through the SolidTube. I say "mostly" because obviously there's some leakage.
So when it comes to creating the final mix I've got two tracks, each with compression at a ration of 6:1 (or thereabouts), each with a limiter, each with some reverb.
I'm fairly sure that has helped matters. However, I've also done the following and I'm not sure if it's a good idea:
I rolled off the lows at approx 80Hz for the boys and 100Hz for the girls
I rolled off the highs at 15kHz for both.
Finally, I added a really small amount of chorus to give it some umpf
Are there any "standard" tricks that people could recommend that should be applied in any case to the vocals? What do the pros do?
Kind of "Oh, everyone knows you have to apply some...."- type of thing.
Thanks for any advice
For example, at the moment I've been recording 5 singers with two mics. Later, I'll do it properly (i.e. one singer per track) but at the moment it's two mics: a Neumann TLM103 and an AKG SolidTube. The boys (bass, contrabass and tenor) mostly through the Nuemann and the girls (alto and soprano) mostly through the SolidTube. I say "mostly" because obviously there's some leakage.
So when it comes to creating the final mix I've got two tracks, each with compression at a ration of 6:1 (or thereabouts), each with a limiter, each with some reverb.
I'm fairly sure that has helped matters. However, I've also done the following and I'm not sure if it's a good idea:
I rolled off the lows at approx 80Hz for the boys and 100Hz for the girls
I rolled off the highs at 15kHz for both.
Finally, I added a really small amount of chorus to give it some umpf
Are there any "standard" tricks that people could recommend that should be applied in any case to the vocals? What do the pros do?
Kind of "Oh, everyone knows you have to apply some...."- type of thing.
Thanks for any advice