How many mics do I need to record voice and piano?

[gonglee]

I want to record voice and piano, and wondering is 2 mics in front 8ft also apart ok?

I want to have the piano in the background, and the voice in the foreground - since it is the solo. How can I do that?

If I have one mic each on the instrument, I won't be getting stereo effect, right? Also, only one side will play the piano, and theother the voice, and I want both sides to have both instruments. Should I double mic each instrument, or get a spliter for the cables and use only one mic for each instrument? The spliter method will degrade the sound, right? Not as good as having 2 mics for each instruments.

I need to know this so I can decide on mbox or digi 002.

Thanks in advance....

 

[MichaelM]

Well, you're talking about recording onto a computer, which is pretty flexible. You could use 2 mics, record the piano first in stereo and then overdub the vocals. Then mix it how you want on the computer. If you wanted to record the whole lot at once you could use two mics again, one mic for the vocals and the other for the piano. Then on the computer you could double up the piano track and delay it, or just add some reverb or whatever to make it sound more stereo......

The mbox would probably do. You're only limited by being able to record 2 tracks at once - not ONLY have 2 tracks total, you can mix more together later.

There are heaps of ways to do everything, I've only said two of them.