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What is the best/most expensive way to record a music rehearsal with my Mac Book pro

I want to record 12 to 20 opera singers singing through a score. I have a Mac Book pro and audacity, but what is the best way to record it. Should I buy a certain type of microphone? Should I use another program. Funds are limited, but a good investment is a good investment.

It will be a live recording of a two hour rehearsal that I cut into there respective numbers. I want to make sure that the singers and piano sound good for reference in composing and maybe sending to theater companies.

clearlyhere asked in Making Music about 1 year ago | Report

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    I would put 3-4 microphones on the 20 singers, and 2 on the piano (low and high), and record into protools.

    I would get:

    protools mBox pro
    an external hardrive and firewire
    2 shure sm57 mics (for the piano)
    3 to 4 shure sm58 mics (for the vocals)

    I believe you can record 6 separate lines with the mBox pro which would allow you to take all those sources and track independently and then be able to mix after the fact using the protools software on your mac. You should investigate that first though. Another option would be to get a small mackie mixing board and do a live mix of all your vocal microphones and run it into protools as a stereo feed to 2 tracks, and run the piano in on 2 other tracks (so using 4 instead of 6 tracks).

    good luck, clearlythere!

    Joe Panzetta answered in Making Music about 1 year ago | Report
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    If you know that many opera singers, you probably directly or indirectly know someone or an institution that has Pro Tools. With that program, you could give everyone his/her own mike and then mess with the levels of each track individually later, provided that you have the boards and mikes and a sufficiently gutsy computer set up.

    Griffin answered in Making Music about 1 year ago | Report
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