2mojo2
Active Member
How far would you be willing to go to improve the sound of a singer in a competitive event at a high school?
I worked with my student crew recently on the annual talent show. For the first time in my memory, I had two parents who were anxious about the vocal mix and offering to bring in additional signal processing equipment to improve their children's voices.
I have dealt with many stage parents, but this turn of events was a little shocking to me.
Granted, this was not an audition, and there were no cash prizes at stake, but I was uncomfortable with the desire to "beef up" these this voices with electronics in a competition.
We will run whatever background tracks the students supply.
We will work with them on mic technique and adjust EQ for best effect.
Otherwise we run a pretty dry mix with some site-adjusted signal processors that were set up by the installing engineer.
Would you accept additional processors in a situation like this?
...reverb units?
........"sonic maximizers"?
.......Auto-tune?
I worked with my student crew recently on the annual talent show. For the first time in my memory, I had two parents who were anxious about the vocal mix and offering to bring in additional signal processing equipment to improve their children's voices.
I have dealt with many stage parents, but this turn of events was a little shocking to me.
Granted, this was not an audition, and there were no cash prizes at stake, but I was uncomfortable with the desire to "beef up" these this voices with electronics in a competition.
We will run whatever background tracks the students supply.
We will work with them on mic technique and adjust EQ for best effect.
Otherwise we run a pretty dry mix with some site-adjusted signal processors that were set up by the installing engineer.
Would you accept additional processors in a situation like this?
...reverb units?
........"sonic maximizers"?
.......Auto-tune?