Need Advice On Children's Choir Recording Options

[kwilinski]

I am making a CD for my son's choir to use as a fundraiser. We have received the mechanical rights for a dozen songs and I have recorded them live in a church. Now I am mixing and mastering.

I recorded using 4 large diaphram condenser mics through MOTU 896HD at 24 bit/96K. The mics were placed to have somewhat "separate" control over the different sections.

Since I am a newbie, I am interested in advice on various EQ, Compressor, Limiter, Reverb, etc... settings I might want to apply. I am using a G4 Dual 1.25 Power Mac with MOTU Digital Performer 5 and the stock plugins.

Any comments, ideas, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. A stereo mixdown of the four tracks (each at equal volume) for one of the songs is at the following link:

http://idisk.mac.com/kwilinski-Public

I have not changed the raw recording tracks other than to convert to an MP3 file at 160 kpbs using LAME encoder.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[PianoPercMan]

Dear sir or ma'am:
I would not add ANYTHING! These files sound GREAT! It sounds like I am in the room. People will know you tried to do something fancy or contrived and most will not like it. A fundraiser is a fundraiser. Leave it alone.

Just my opinion.

Hope this helps!

Sincerely,

David C. Anderson

http://www.tunethatpiano.com

[2christo]

As a professional engineer with a number of choral recordings to my credit, I want to echo the previous response to your question. These recordings sound great: very spacious, excellent ratio of direct to reflected sound. The only processing I would consider is an infrasonic roll-off.

Congratulations!

Christo

I am making a CD for my son's choir to use as a fundraiser. We have received the mechanical rights for a dozen songs and I have recorded them live in a church. Now I am mixing and mastering.

I recorded using 4 large diaphram condenser mics through MOTU 896HD at 24 bit/96K. The mics were placed to have somewhat "separate" control over the different sections.

Since I am a newbie, I am interested in advice on various EQ, Compressor, Limiter, Reverb, etc... settings I might want to apply. I am using a G4 Dual 1.25 Power Mac with MOTU Digital Performer 5 and the stock plugins.

Any comments, ideas, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. A stereo mixdown of the four tracks (each at equal volume) for one of the songs is at the following link:

http://idisk.mac.com/kwilinski-Public

I have not changed the raw recording tracks other than to convert to an MP3 file at 160 kpbs using LAME encoder.

Thanks in advance for your help.