Dear Lisa and vocalisters,
it all sounds very promising and I am looking forward to the .wave or .mp3 files. Since you are thinking about buying a md recorder: Caio sent us a link to a Berklee site. Well, it seems that at Berklee (sounds like Berkely, but seems to be quite different!) they are not very much focussed on classical music, and neither is their microphone advise: the Shure SM 58 is a rugged, good and very widely used microphone for popsingers, who mostly seem to treat their microphones as bad as they treat their voices. For classical singers the SM 58 sounds definitively too rough (I tested it). Besides that you cannot use it without a microphone amplifier/mixer. Sony e.g. sell smaller (stereo) microphones for about $ 150 that are not bad and that you can just plug into your portable md/dat/mc recorder. Somebody on the list who'se name I forgot alas, made good experiences with some other brand. But before buying any microphone(s): try them by recording both your own and other voices, and don't use them too close (most microphones will darken the tone at close distances, due to the proximity effect; besides that a close distance will mostly suggest a better diction than you have, which didactically is not good). There are good reasons to mike somebody quite close (as well) though, but that is more when making recordings to sound as good as possible, not to learn as much as possible.
Best greetings,
Dre
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