Recording vocals

                     With the recordings, we organized the tracks in the same manner doing a playlist and recording every take even the rehearsal. Sending the rough mix to Rocio, the singer, was a great advantage because she had time to rehears and had an idea on how everything is going to work out the only changes we had to do to in the mix was the time between the 3 intros at the beginning of the track.                   

                     For the vocals, we used the Orpheus and the U87 but this time we set the Orpheus to be omnidirectional and the U87 to be cardioid. Having the U87 feed to a reverb unit close to the reverb recorded in the echo chamber I managed to make Rocio sing some parts with less sustain on the vocals which gives me great advantage in post processing being able to fill the gaps with a high quality reverb chorus and so on. The noise floor on the vocal microphones is very low due to the loudness of her voice, which makes it a great advantage when you sing live because less gain means less feedback and less noise. Having the Orpheus set to be an omnidirectional microphone allowed us to set up a very sensible gate to get rid of the movement and small sounds recorded by the Orpheus, allowing the vocals to be as clear as they can be.

            The majority of processing done in the previous session had me left with blending the vocals in the mix.