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Doc

Here's a neat one.

Bus your entire track to two stereo groups. Flip the phase of one stereo group and leave the other one as it is. Drop the volume of the phase flipped tracks to nothing. Now, play the track listening to the first group, then slowly bring up the phase flipped group as you fade out the other. If you do this correctly it will sort of give the impression that your head is trying to turn itself inside out or that the mix is shaped like a barrel and you are currently rolling around inside it. It's wierd... Try it.

Also... just a tip... Someone mentioned miking the back of guitar cabinets earlier. Flip the phase on the rear mic when you do that so that both mics are in phase with each other.

Oh yeah... one more.

If you are recording a choir as an accompanyment to pre-recorded material or have a situation where headphones are not practical:

Wire your speakers (in the performance room) out of phase and either set them on top of each other or towards each other. This will allow them to hear what they are singing to but most of it will be cancelled in the vocal mics.

Got a snare that just won't pop? Mult it off to another channel, compress the thing to death, set an eq so that it rolls both the high and low end off, leaving just the "crack" of the sound. Run that through a gate and tighten it down so that it it little more that a "pop". Bring all that back in under the real snare till the attack of the snare is heard. You can go from a snare just laying there, to one that seems to explode in the mix.