"Laurence Payne" wrote in message
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On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:12:04 +0100, "fredbloggstwo"
wrote:

If you are keen on singing together with your partner at the mic and like
the intimacy of that, I would suggest that you get a mic that has an
omni-directional pattern rather than a cardioid. You will pick up some of
the room as well (obviously), but that will add to the atmosphere and you
will tend to get a response with less bumps in it. This will widen your
choice of available devices to do the job.

He specifically said he wanted to record two separate tracks.


You could also try a PZM microphone, (or a pair of them for stereo)
although
you will have to give it a boundary (ies) to get any decent bottom end.

What advantage do you feel PZMs would bring? Generally, they're a
neat idea desperately looking for an application :-)


Hi Lawrence,

I was trying to suggest an alternative to saving the OP some cash.
Multimiking/multitracking is one of the worst things to happen to recording
IMHO, both quality and psychologically. The OP wanted to sing with his
partner at the mic so I took that line to help him. A good single omni mic
is probably more honest and give a better sound than a pair of eq'd
mulitracked. If his cash would go to it, I would have suggested a good
figure of 8 so as to sing opposite at the same mic, but they start to get
pricey. :-)

As for the PZMs, have an experiment sometime if you haven't already: with a
good baffle, you can get some very good recordings.

Regards

Mike