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hey guys, i was told there's an effect or a way to accomplish this and I was wondering if any one know how to do it, having a vocal track make it sound like 20 people at the same time. no just mixing 20 channels, the dynamic change for each one of them changes making that person sound like whispers and different things. I know my english is not good, hope you guys understand!!

cheers to all

Hi,

you may mean a chorus effect? Most sound editors have this effect, er.... Audacity for example

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/effects_chorus.html

Cheers

D

dobroide
Hi,

you may mean a chorus effect? Most sound editors have this effect, er.... Audacity for example

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/manual-1.2/effects_chorus.html

Cheers

D

no, what im trying to do in my song is having this girl sound like a group of girls singing together at the same time. i heard there's a plugin to do that but maybe someone knows a different way

Usually the best way of having one person appear as 2 or more is simply to record more. Have them sing a counter-melody or anything resembling the main melody. Think "Bohemian Rhapsody", they didn't simply record one take and applied (at the time not-yet-existing) plugins over it.
It might appear to take more time, but really, any method you use to achieve it will in the end take the same amount of time. You might not need more recording time, you're working on fiddling with plugins and in the end, at least I think so, plugins are fine for some effects, but if you want to double instruments or vocals, nothing can beat a second recording take.

true. thanks man anyways

You probably couldn't do this to get 20 voices, but you might be able to pull off 8 or so... If you have a delay that does stereo double delay (just googled and found this one), set it up so that you have it as a send effect, rather than an insert. Next make it so that one delays at maybe 10 or 15 ms, and pan it to the right, then one that delays at slightly longer, 15 or 20 ms, panned to the left. Then repeat the process but make sure you keep them panned slightly different and slightly different delays. Not sure how many of these you can get away with before you start to get into trouble, but it might be worth a try. If you really want 20, you could try doing 5 takes of the same phrase, and do this trick 4 times. Experiment! Good luck.

Actually there are various pieces of soft and hardware to emulate this properly.

There's all the "harmonizer" technology from digitech ( for example http://www.digitech.com/products/Vocalistlivepro/index.php ) or t.c. electronic ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRB98dibQ6c )

There's melodyne celodyne that could be used as well ( http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=342&L=%2525253FL%2525253D )

- bram

The easiest way to do this is Antares Avox unit or Antares Harmonizer Engine. Eventually Celemony Melodyne in Studio or 8 pre version. But manually you may copy several times this vocal to another tracks and then combine with pan and eq, remember to move them few miliseconds to front and back (each in different way) to avoid phasing effects. The best way is to record girl several times of course

Bram
Actually there are various pieces of soft and hardware to emulate this properly.

There's all the "harmonizer" technology from digitech ( for example http://www.digitech.com/products/Vocalistlivepro/index.php ) or t.c. electronic ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRB98dibQ6c )

There's melodyne celodyne that could be used as well ( http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=342&L=%2525253FL%2525253D )

- bram

yes, thanks a lot man. I knew there was some hard-soft ware to do the trick. I'll try it now on melodyne.

thanks you all for the help!!!

Of course, short delays and panning will begin to achieve this affect, but one thing to keep in mind is the formant of the voice. A chorus of people all have different formants to their voice, and making sure the "doubles" of the voice are *slightly detuned", or even have their formant slightly change, will help achive more realism, as well as lessen phasing from the same voice being repeated. Eventides harmonizer algorithm makes use of this. Waves also has a plug that allows you to control all those aspects.
Just wanted to put my two beans in about voice formants.

this is my first post, and I guess I come from the rock world but my band has done this one so maybe I can help, basically what we have done to get this effect is have one of us sing this song many times though slight pitch shifting effects throughing off the signal just a tad, which sounds great if you stack them...

we used a cheep boss ps-2 guitar effect to do this, I am not sure if there is a plug in for this effect as I am really just hear to learn, but if there is I would maybe try that...

we have also done all 4 off use through this effect, about 15 ft from the mic in the studio we doubled it up it sounds like f*&king army on cd, so maybe you can find a bunch of people to help you, alot of people will help you for free if you just ask...

Could maybe check this plug out too:

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/9301.html

mike-t3
Could maybe check this plug out too:

http://www.kvraudio.com/news/9301.html

yeah, I just found it.

thanks man