Applause or not?

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I just recorded a live choir and I would like to know if I should leave the applause at the end of each song... what do you believe is more professionnal?

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You should have made this a poll...

I would leave it.
 
what i usually do is take them out because it sounds cleaner. Put a nice reverb at the end to make the tail cleaner. But then keep the one on the last song. I think all the applauses on a cd get really annoying. The only exception is if it was their premier song of the night, but thats usually the last one anyway.

Danny
 
i'd say leave it so it keeps the "live" feel. if the applause after one tune is incredibly long...shorten it
 
You can really go either way... If you want the live feel leave it in. If you can take it out of all of them, it certainly isn't against the law.

If you can't successfully get it out of all the tracks, I'd leave them all in... THAT would be cheesy (some with, some without).

Sometimes it comes down to time - I just finished a classical concert that had an interesting issue... LOTS of applause - Enough to push it over the 80 minute mark. Also, the audience wasn't extremely seasoned in classical ettiquite (they clapped between movements three times). However, they were clean endings. It came down to actually removing a track or removing the audience.

After screwing around with verbs for an hour, I decided to send the audience home. :)
 
Heh. I just think applauses are annoying unless they are actually live.

But one thing too is specifically for a live recording i did a few weeks ago, all the fliers told the audience to hold the applause until the last number anyway. For time issues and stuff. But all it takes is for one person in the audience to start and they all do it. So i thought the group who was paying for the recording might want it takin out.

Danny
 
Lemme ask this...during the performance, is there any audience noise? Can you tell it was done live? If so, I wouldn't try to fool the listener...leave it in. If the track was totally clean of audience sounds, I might consider taking it out but it would be a matter of personal preference at that point.
 
It depends. If you are going for a "live sound" leave it in, but turn it down just a tad and add reverb. If you are going for a "studio feel" take it out!
 
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