There's a few ideas here.

= Justin

This is sort of related:

when my band recorded, we did so with everyone (vocals included) in the same room. granted, this caused all sorts of problems (see thread in "Studio Questions"), but the one cool thing that it allowed us to do was, for certain sections, leave the vocal mics on to pick up ambient sounds (bass slaps/pops, scratching guitar pick-noises, and intense mid-range textures reminiscent of a low-pass filter). So it's not exactly a vocal mic-ing technique, but it involves vocal mics... i guess.

i'll stop now.

It's funny to say it, but I've been using a room mic when doing vocals forever. I use a room mic about 10 ft back, sometimes pointing at a wall instead of the vocalist. I'll compress it, or delay it or whatever. It is particularly effective when a singer goes to an emotive, loud passage.

I remember taping a pzm to the control room window once, sounded awesome on the screaming bits...

(all of these are in combination with a LDC, compressed, etc)

I have recorded my own vocals by singing through an amp a few times, in a studio and also on 4 track. Has anyone done much of this, do you have any ideas or tips? I'm going to record in the next month or so, I haven't done any recording in a few years and I would like to go into the studio with a few ideas for recording vocals. I just do not like vocals to sound so separated from the other tracks, but I don't know enough about recording to explain myself.

Just a question for the multi mic technic ....
Do you know how too avoid phase matters in the "Bowie's Tecnic".
I work mostly with crazy screamers (hard core) with a lot of variations so I'm very interested by this one.
Thanks for any infos.

You shouldn't have too bad of phase issues, since the distant mic will be mixed in at a lower volume, and be delayed by a few milliseconds because of the distance. If you notice it does sound phasey, try moving it farther away, or eq out some freqencies.

I've never had any phase issues with this technique, but I suppose anything's possible!

For screamers, we used a SM57 (I know...) hanging from the ceiling lamp in an apartment bedroom. Shag on the floor, bare hard walls. We used a tranformer and plugged it into a ProCo RAT distortion pedal. The guy just screamed into the room. Lotsa fun, and got the neighbors thinking in the bargain.