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recording demos for singers,songwriters

Heloo,my fist post , salutations from south of spain
I would be very thankfull for any help
Im thinking about expanding my rec.studio busines with online demo services but Im not sure how the market is now,do songwriters still record demos in studious as they used to? (home studio setups cuts down clientelle )surely even the demo purpose changed over the years,

Singers + piano

Dear masters, I come again to seek your advise. I'm approaching two new situations.

1) Soprano + alto + piano. They are trained and capable singers. The place will be a stone church, reverberant, not very large (ca 12 x 25m). I've never recorded so few singers before...:roll: I have access to omni, cardiod, and switchable pattern mics of reasonable to good quality.

monitor mix for singers who hate headphones?

hey I have seen singers(James Hetfield of Metallica) in the studio tracking vocal takes without head phones and I want to do thid for my singer as well. he says the phones make him a little more uptight and to have a set of speakers playing at him would make it feel more like the band is in the room with him.

Singers, cant live with'em - uh, whats with the rubber

So I JUST did a demo for a band. Just a quick two song thing, couple hours out the door, bye. Two nights ago I led the singer into the iso booth to do his vox. He could not grasp the concept of staying within 5 feet of the mic. He literally would whisper at two feet and shout at two inches, and insisted he was not conscious of his actions.