more than one mic at a time for vocals?

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Couple of the guys in my band have no patience for voice testing the mics, so, double micing is the only way to hedge my bets. I always take a little time and play with position to avoid phase issues. Most of the time, I throw one track out. Maybe twice I've blended the 2, cutting out frequencies that were less desirable to each mic. I don't know if it was anything amazing or brilliant, but it didn't hurt. I've always assumed that all the really high paid, long established, super talented sound engineers did this and just didn't tell anybody!

I need to assume that there are cheap tricks and easy secrets to great sound. Otherwise, I'll have to spend a lot of money on gear and a lot of time getting experience .....and that would suck!
 
and, by the way, how many of you guitar players or horn players spend hours and hours trying to perfect your double-micing technique. So why do vox get the short stick?
 
In his early recording days, they would use three(!) ribbon microphones on Elvis because he moved around a lot when he sang. Later on he liked the EV RE15 or RE16 because it has such a
forgiving pattern and still sounds good.

Chris
 
I test two mics at once sometimes just to see how how they will sound on a particular song. This way I get to hear both mics on the same take and I don't have to sing the song twice. Of course, before the real recording begins I choose one mic and go with that.
 
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