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fredbloggstwo wrote:
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.

Possibly, but for the home musician it opens up all sort of possibilities
otherwise impossible. Not many can afford to hire a studio and orchestra -
let alone one which is internally balanced. ;-)

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.

Omnis are ideal as hand held vocal mics. Where you don't need deafening
levels of foldback and PA. But used more distantly will pick up more room
acoustic/background sounds. Which you probably won't want if working at
home.

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. :-)

Well of course the traditional large diaphragm condenser mics were all
switchable between omni, cardiod and fig eight due to having two
diaphragms one on each side of the capsule. By matrixing these you get the
various DPs.

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

They can have their uses - but these tend to be rather restricted.

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