[linux-audio-user] multiple voice (choir?) effect

[Bryan Koschmann - GKT]

Ron,

Thank you very much for the great explanation. I really appreciate the
details you offered, and I think this will give me what I need. I will
work on it tonight and see how it comes out.

I'm assuming I can do all this with Ardour, although I'm welcome to any
other suggestions (linux veteran, still an audio newbie though).

I think I'll print this out and staple it to my wall to keep it fresh in
mind :)

	Bryan


On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, R Parker wrote:
|
|Not at all odd. The following describes the ideal
|situation where you've got three singers. Of course
|you're dealing with one and so you'll never achieve
|the result that I get with the technique that I'll
|describe. Reguardless the principle applies accept
|that you're faced with a sound design challange to
|create a sense multiple voices--otherwise known as a
|PITA.
|
|Ideally, you've got three singers in the vocal booth
|where each is singing a harmony note and all three to
|one track. Then you repeat that performance and
|optionally assign them different notes. Now you've got
|six voices on two tracks. You can eq and effect each
|track differently to create distinction and depth.
|Inexperienced singers will want to sing lead when
|they're doing back up tracks. Don't let them. Keep the
|parts painfully simple. Position them around the mic
|in a half circle so they can follow eachother's lips
|and tell them to do that if they're having timing
|problems. And they will! Often times these parts are
|being written on the fly.
|
|Lots of reverb will help smooth out poor performances
|but doesn't replace talent.
|
|After you achieve a sound that you like, comp the two
|tracks to one. Then copy the final track that includes
|the six voices and two mixes to another track.
|Playback the final two mult tracks to their own
|channels and pan them hard Left and hard Right.
|
|You can go nuts with variations on this theme until
|you've got the sound you want.
|
|Panning hard L and R creates a wide stereo field,
|enables you to keep those track volumes lower in the
|mix and still have them punch out when the parts play.
|
|Chorus vocal mults rule. You want the right thing.
|
|Things to try that might fatten up one voice but will
|probably be alot more work than having three singers;
|copy the track and shift one "slightly" out of
|time--not so much to affect the groove, use pitch
|shifting, tight slap back echo--creates depth, reverb,
|etc.
|
|Maybe that gives you some ideas.
|
|ron
|
|> Thanks,
|>
|> 	Bryan
|>
|
|
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