I think I'll have to record at my church. It's a modern one with carpeting and a stage, so acoustically not the best, but I'm mainly thinking less room sound would be a bit better for mixing purposes, right?
If you were asking an opera singer to use in a piece you wrote, would you rather have completely dead, or some room? I've sung in a dead space before and it was...well...an awful feeling. It seems odd to me, too, because it's do reliant upon acoustics of the space.
Ok, that 2nd option was kind of what I was thinking of as well. That way there's some options with the mixing.Yeah, there are a few ways to skin the cat. You could use an omni mic but you'll have to get the placement and ambience balance right on the night.
I can't see it being that fussy...There's probably a pretty big margin for error.
An other way is to have a main mic focussed entirely on capturing the singer well and a separate mic (or more) placed farther out just to capture the natural reverb.
Of course there'll always be some degree of ambience in the main vocal mic but, that aside, the second setup would let you control of the amount of ambience in the mix afterwards.
No problem at all.
I don't have much experience actually doing this kind of thing so, again, someone else might have better suggestions.
I'd probably reach for my sm81s but I'm sure pretty much any pair of decent quality condensers would do the job well enough.
Mono (one room mic) would be just fine too but I think I'd prefer to do it in stereo.
A. CorrectI'd try a ribbon.
a. Women seem to sound awesome on them, and if you're a soprano I assume you're a woman?
b. The figure 8 will give you some ambiance but not as much as an omni
They'll will likely require a lot of gain, though, so a fethead or a preamp with a lot of gain will likely be needed. PM me if you want a ribbon recommendation in your budget (I don't like to make recs on the forum because then prices shoot up!). Hopefully you have a preamp.
I don't think I have a preamp. I have a Roland Quad capture
Probably should do stereo for both close and far mics, you think?
I don't think I have a preamp. I have a Roland Quad capture