One of the coolest things about being an NYC recording studio is that we get to work with some of the best and most international musicians and composers. In this case, we were very lucky to have our good friend and amazing composer (seriously, his music is outrageously beautiful and heavily performed) Roman Hurko in the recording studio.
We have done a lot of work for Roman over the years, mostly on his sheet music, engraving, transcribing, printing, but this time Roman came in with his wife Carmen to record a piece he had written as a birthday present for his mother.
The track was for piano, baritone, and alto. We miked up the piano using an AKG C414 and a Sterling ST31 and a pair of Rode NT1As and got a wonderful stereo image of Roman performing the piano accompaniment. Then once we had that nicely edited we recorded Roman and Carmen singing together, but in isolation (Roman was in the vocal booth, and Carmen was in the live room). We had them sing the baritone and alto lines about 8 times so we could layer them to form a section. Later in the week, we had a great session with them to finalize the mix and master of the track before Roman and Carmen sent it off to our video friends over at Black Dot Creative to make a really neat cosmic collage. We love getting to record classical music, and this was a wonderful song that we were glad to be a part!