I am recording a concert in September of Bach cantatas in a large, reverberant church made of stone. I have about 1 hour to 90 minutes to set up at most, so my rig has to be fairly simple.

I will be recording a grade-school choir next week, and am limited to only four mic preamps, as I will be recording through a 002 using my laptop. I plan on using a Royer SF-12 for the choir. I have a few questions:
Does the 002 have enough gain to accomodate the SF-12?

Ive have recorded a 35 voice choir with two spaced condensers with reasonable success (about 8 feet apart and about 10 feet back [due to space limitations I cant observe the 3to1 rule on the stage]) although I needed to add synthetic reverbs . Im recording them again this weekend and The actual church reverb is beautiful so my question to you is.

I'm going to be recording a small choir (15-20 people) in the next few days, and they're going to be singing with a backing track. I'd like any advice on monitoring for them, and Micing the choir in a small room of about 15' x 20'.

[ August 18, 2003, 11:23 AM: Message edited by: cjguitar ]

hi there,
I'm gonna record a choir in a church in the next weeks, and I was looking for everykind of advice. I have done it before, but this is teh first time with ggod equipment and teh possibilites to work on teh setup of the choir too.
This is what I will use:
Crown SASS
Oktava MC012 FMSP
John Hardy M1, 2 channel
Fostex D5