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A small aside to all this good advice. Often (usually) embracing the bleed is a wise approach, particularly for music where authenticity is a factor.

Our ears don't hear in multitrack and are very good at sniffing out little idiosyncrasies which are artefacts of the recording process and can become a barrier between the performer and the listener in ways we might struggle to quantify and discuss, but we can hear it.

One more point - *using multiple mics always introduces the question of phase alignment as, for instance, the vocal hits the two mics at slightly different times, when this signals are combined they introduce a cancellation effect at certain frequencies. A coincident pair, equi-distant from the sources will help but will limit how close you can get to each source unless you're a really tiny person.

*Apologies if I'm teaching my Grandma to suck Genelecs but not everyone is aware.

Phase issues can kill an otherwise satisfying performance so it's good to avoid causing two problems by solving one.