How would you do it?

[dastrick]

Here's what's up.

I recorded a Christmas choir concert that consisted of 3 different choirs. The same piano and mic setup was used for each choir. In other words, there was no time between choirs to change the setup. I have a total of 14 tracks for a little over an hour of record time.

Here's my question:

How would you go about mixing this?

Would you cut the project up into smaller projects of each choir? Would you cut it up by songs? Would you leave everything on one big project and automate the settings?

I know that there is no right or wrong way and that everybody will probably have a different workflow, but how would you do it?

Thanks for the help

 

[TheChikenMaster]

If I find my self changing settings around between sets I would just cut it up. more convenient I think.

 

[dobro]

What does it sound like? How much difference is there between choirs? Does the first choir sound good, the second lousy, the third in-between, etc? If so, why is that? Is it the sound?

What's the purpose of the recording, and who's going to listen to it? Is the whole concert going to be presented as one recording, or is each choir going to present their performance separately? Or is each song going to be presented separately?

 

[dastrick]

There's quite a big difference in the sound of the choirs. One is 1st-4th grader, 5th-8th graders, & high school. Some songs have a violin accomp, some have soloists, one has percussion (djembe, triangle, shaker).

The piano will remain consistent through the entire project.

The cd's will be made available to the parents/audience. The whole concert will be presented as one recording.

thanks,

 

[NYMorningstar]

If it were a real concert I would cut it up to individual songs and leave them in the order they were performed otherwise you'd probably piss somebody off

 

[dastrick]

I'm definitely going to leave the songs in order. I was asking more about the workflow in the DAW.

 

[kubeek]

I'm definitely going to leave the songs in order. I was asking more about the workflow in the DAW.

The actual setup to capture them all is a lot more important. Don´t know how large are the choirs, but the basic should be two or more mics in front of the choir,then the piano, then other stuff. It should sound as good as possible from the stereo pair, and then just adjust mics for what is missing.