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 |> | | |__________________________________________________ |Do you Yahoo!? |The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo |http://search.yahoo.com |
