Last week I was working on the Tiny Tree Triumph project and Brian wanted a choir of voices behind one part of the latest song "Flashlight." Several of our friends joined us and including myself we had six people singing. We multiplied our voices on several tracks so it sounded like a larger group than we really were. The background vocals turned out really great and I had to bring my camera in and snap a couple shots seeing as how this was the largest group I'd had in the studio at one time. That is... until yesterday. My partner, Bruce Balgaard, did a favor for his daughter Amanda and her Chamber Singers group and invited them in to the studio to record a whopping 23 a cappella songs. There were at one time eighteen high school students in the tracking room, easily beating the old record of six! It was really a treat to hear and capture the voices of these talented young singers in their element. We captured a beautiful natural reverb by sticking a couple of microphones out in the hallway. It sounded like they were singing in a large church. Nice to know the tracking room is big enough to record a vocal ensemble of eighteen and even nicer to know that the control room can hold the same eighteen for listening to the playback.
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