After accusations of lip syncing were leveled then, a spokesman for FremantleMedia North America, the company that produces "American Idol" for Fox, admitted that the contestants sang along to their own recorded vocal tracks during group performances.
To play the title character in DreamWorks' new animated action-adventure, "Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas," which opened on Wednesday, Mr. Pitt spent a total of some 20 hours recording vocal tracks in an air-conditioned Los Angeles studio well supplied with his favorite pizza.
DeLonge was having vocal problems and spent much time recording and re-recording vocal tracks, and Hoppus realized he too was having difficulty singing after losing his voice during a one-off Christmas concert.
René Angélil, Dion, and the Sony family began selecting prospective songs at the beginning of 2001, and on August 28 , 2001she started recording vocal tracks for nearly two dozen songs at Montreal's Piccolo Studios.
The band then relocated for three weeks to a smaller studio in another part of Cello Studios where Cuomo and Bell worked on guitar takes while the entire band recorded vocal tracks.
Mark, as the band's lyricist explained that he "work[ed] very hard and writing and revising very personal lyrics" and found that a part of him did not want to hand over the lyrics to another to sing, however, with Perri's departure and when Mark began recording vocal tracks, "It immediately seemed like that's the way things had been all along".
"The industry will say 'these actors were so brave to attempt singing this score live' but why not cast actors who could actually sound good?" Most movie musicals feature studio-recorded vocal tracks that are added to the movie after filming, but Hooper demanded that the cast sing live on camera -- a choice he has defended as "essential" to the movie's success.
The singer's rendition of "Living for Love" found her being handed off among a mosaic of men dressed as bulls, destroying some '80s-throwback choreography and still hitting every word during the six-minute performance (atop a recorded vocal track, of course).
Although it had long been recognised that using multitrack tape to record doubled lead vocals produced an enhanced sound, before ADT it had been necessary to record such vocal tracks twice, a task that was both tedious and exacting.
Sunn O))) enlisted black-metal luminaries Wrest and Malefic to add an infernal edge to the album, going as far as locking the latter in a coffin while recording his vocal tracks.
