Hello, hope everyone is doing great.
I have an upcoming recording session in my studio where several students will record dialogue off a script, they are looking to record multiple voices at the same time. Can someone offer some advice on how to set this up?
I was thinking on just recording each "actor" one by one and arranging it all in post, or should I just set up four or five mics and let them have at it?

Thanks so much in advance

Seems like they want to interact, which will be better when all can speak in the same performance. Think of a classic radio play. So yes, best will be to set up several mics and record to different tracks for post production.

Best to have them either seated or standing in a circle or semi-circle with a mic on each speaker, and some distance between each…so that the adjacent mics pick up relatively little cross-spill of the nearby speech.

You don’t require great isolation, but if there’s too much spill it will produce a thin,hollow or phased quality to the voice.

Directional (ie cardioid) voice mics are preferable to omnis, and if the speakers are unused to recording their voices, be sure to locate the mics below the chin pointing up to the mouth….or around forehead height pointing down at the mouth, to avoid the plosive pops of air velocity as they produce the sounds of words beginning with “p” and “b”

Dynamic mics are fine for this purpose, small diameter cardioid condensor mics are especially prone to the popping phenomenon…and in the latter case the supplied small foam balls don’t reduce the popping much, if at all….hence my above/below mouth advice. If you record these pop sounds, you won’t be able to remove them….so it’s much better to prevent them at source !

Thanks so much this really helped, I dont know if i can post pictures here but Ill try, it all went pretty good, no issues, no problems. 😊👌🙌