Youtube Video

[dc2daylight]

There is a video of the recording I did of "A Whole New World" up on YouTube. Since Aladdin was an animated feature, the songs were recorded first and then the pictures were drawn to match. Since there was no time frame to match, this was done without click or picture (hadn't been drawn yet). In order to do multiple takes and be able to (possibly) replace the vocals, we [let's not always see the same hands trying to answer laugh.gif ] videotaped (yes real tape) the conductor during each performance since they were slightly different. We synchronized all the machines with Lynx modules designed by my dear friend Gerry Block.

The vocals were recorded live with the orchestra. They were surrounded by gobos, but were in the same room, Studio A at RCA/BMG. They had to have good sight lines with the conductor and each other since there was no click. The equipment was a Neve VR, and a Sony 3348. There were no orchestral overdubs or edits -- that's just the way it went down.

The great writing of Alan Menken and magical orchestrations of Danny Troob were a pleasure to work with.

At about 3:09 you can see a much younger ME sitting at the console, striped shirt and TIE! My how times have changed.

Live Recording of

Edited June 6, 2009 by dc2daylight

[john]

Hi Michael

Good to see you back

I get an error with that link. It says it's a malformed video id....

Cheers

John

[dc2daylight]

John, I have fixed it; try again.

[john]

Hey

Nice one I added it to the Songstuff Channel favorites on YouTube

Very smart too lol

Cheers

John

[Nightwolf]

very cool Daddio

[Lazz]

Yes !

Old skool.

That's how to dress for the studio.

[NormanandJourdan]

Love this song...

-Norman