Ok, we have a four piece band calling themselves the Beatles. Since it came up I think I’ll do my hypothetical recording using one microphone. I've never done it before and it sounds challenging. Since balancing the sounds into one mic will be in order, I’ll put my George Martin hat on and create magic with an omnidirectional mic. The band will be situated around the mic in a sort of cross pattern. The levels of each instrument will be judged through speakers and anyone too loud will either have their amp turned down, or if the amps tone changes too much with volume will be moved further away from the mic. Drums, bass and two guitars will be balanced accordingly and tastefully. The mic may need to be raised or lowered depending on how much kick drum is present and how much of a clean sounding snare there is. The vocalists will be placed in between each instrument of the ‘instrument cross’ and placed closer or further away depending if they have lead singing or backing singing roles. This will work well as the backing vocals will obviously need to be placed further away allowing more room sound in and creating a more spacious separate sound than the closer direct lead vocal.
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Grice, David. 2008. “AA2 – Session planning.” Seminar presented at the University of Adelaide.
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