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Recording Background Vocals |
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The reason you want to wait until this point to record background vocals is that they fill in the holes. There’s no way to know where the holes are until you’ve finished everything else. The trick is to listen to the mix and see if you can hear the places where background vocals will add something to the song. Background vocals without any purpose sound cheesy. Also, background vocals are not harmony vocals. They are oooh’s and aaah’s and sometimes repetition of the lead vocal but they are not harmony. A harmony vocal should be treated like a lead vocal and recorded immediately after the lead vocal. If possible, try to record all the background vocals at once, in the same space. You can use some isolation but not the point where the vocalists can’t see each other. This is a give and take process and the more the vocalists feel they are one unit rather than separate parts, the more successful you will be. The recording process will be basically treating the background vocalists as individual instruments so mic choice is going to be determined by which mic is going to work best for each vocalist. .
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