Hi, --- Bryan Koschmann - GKT <gktnews@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know of either a program, plugin, or > even technique, to make a > single recorded voice sound like many? They don't > necessarily need to vary > in pitch I guess, just sound like many people > singing. > > Odd request I'm sure :) 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 > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com
