> 'We rented a soundstage - not a scoring stage, since we couldn't fit
> them in the scoring stage - one of the huge massive stages where they shot
> Superman Returns. It's a massive space, very empty, very echoey - it has a
> seven second echo. You just pile them in there, and hang some mikes above
> them, put some mikes in front of them, and in the back of the hall. And
> you record enough channels that you can make it sound whichever way you
> need it to sound, bigger or smaller, depending on how it's going to fit
> in. But we couldn't get 600-pairs of headphones, and obviously we were
> working to playback. So the problem was, we couldn't playback over
> speakers and record everybody since we wouldn't have separation, so the
> conductor had headphones, and he would just conduct and try to keep them
> in time, and we would cut it up a little bit when they were out of
> time.'

That's hilarious that they had to rent an entire freaking soundstage to fit the choir.