Date sent: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:32:29 EST
Subject: Re: singing with a mic
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

In a message dated 01/29/2000 9:46:44 AM Central Standard Time,
jaxsobcon-at-norlink.net writes:

<< An afternoon in a recording studio would open lots of
eyes...the tricks they can manipulate are unbelievable.
I once recorded a children's album and one woman
could not sing in key. They did many tracks and pieced
her together using the best parts from each track and
sometimes doubling the vocals. She sounded much
better in the final mix. >>

I remember when Michelle Pfeiffer did the Fabulous Baker Boys and people were
talking about how well she sang. I personally don't recall much about the
movie so obviously it didn't impress me one way or the other. Anyway, after
the success of the movie, Johnny Carson asked her to come on the show and
sing. She was very excited and called up the musical director of the movie
and asked him to help her prepare something... she was crestfallen when he
told her to come into the studio and he would play her some tracks of her
singing without editing. As it turned out, the singing in the movie was
comprised of cutting and pasting together multiple tracks in order to come
out with something reasonably in tune. She did not sing on the Tonight Show.

I read this somewhere - it might not be true - but if it is, it is an example
of how technology can make ANYTHING work!!

Chris Thomas
Mezzo-Soprano
Wauwatosa, WI

"I love to sing-a, about the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a"