Need Advice On Children's Choir Recording Options

[kwilinski]

I am making a CD for my son's choir to use as a fundraiser. We have received the mechanical rights for a dozen songs and I have recorded them live in a church. Now I am mixing and mastering.

I recorded using 4 large diaphram condenser mics through MOTU 896HD at 24 bit/96K. The mics were placed to have somewhat "separate" control over the different sections.

Since I am a newbie, I am interested in advice on various EQ, Compressor, Limiter, Reverb, etc... settings I might want to apply. I am using a G4 Dual 1.25 Power Mac with DP 5 and the stock plugins.

Any comments, ideas, suggestions would be greatly appreciated. A stereo mixdown of the four tracks (each at equal volume) for one of the songs is at the following link:

http://idisk.mac.com/kwilinski-Public

I have not changed the raw recording tracks other than to convert to an MP3 file at 160 kpbs using LAME encoder.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[kevinr]

I enjoyed your recording, but IMHO you shouldn't get too hung up over effects etc. The ORIGINAL is what counts and I'm curious about the FOUR mics. The end result is rather diffuse - attractive, but diffuse. Did you consider going with a simple crossed pair on the choir? It might have produced clearer stereo imaging. Sorry if that sounds like I'm being a pain after all your hard work.