From your experience, what type of rooms produce the best sounding recordings for choirs?
Right now the city choirs love the reverby church but I think this is one older leaders influence. I would love to entice them otherwise and was wondering what others think.

I'm assuming we look at this from two POV. Choir and engineer.

The outline:

Folks-

Do you do this? Under what circumstances? Interested in what folks do with this tool- it was not available in the 'old days' when we simply observed good 3:1 ratio and other guidelines. Does delaying spot mics assist you in getting better audio now that this tool is available? Your thoughts?

Last night I recorded the Indianapolis Children's Choir for track titled "How Many Christmases" sung by Rosanne Cash on some upcoming project. From what I understand, they are collecting tracks from choirs all over the world to mix into this track, so my track will be a drop in the bucket, rather literally.

Hi,

Hello.

I need guidance to record my pupils rock ensemble correctly.

Did you ever hear 'The Langley School Music Project'?:

http://www.keyofz.com/keyofz/langley/

We want to do a recording in the same spirit (a nice, listenable lofi recording of kids banging out rock songs).

I am going to record a classical choir and I need some advise

The location is a medium sized (old) church. Carpet on the floors and walls of wood. The ceiling high is aprox 10-12 meters. The natural reverberation of the church is pretty good. (Not the 5 second reverbs u get in big stonechurches but not completely dead either, something in between)

I have a gig (almost) booked to record a good, but smallish choir in a large concert hall. It will be 25-30 adult voices - SABT. This will be my first recording in a "big-boy" venue. It is a closed session, so the hall will be essentially empty.
http://www.krannertcenter.com/about/venues/foellinger.asp

Hey all,

Hey! Im pretty new to these forums, only made a post or two. My question today is, how can I make choir type vocal effects? For example, take a look at the song "Curse You All Men", and skip to 2:57 to hear what I'm talking about. Theres only 1 singer, yet it sounds like theres a large church choir there or something.