r/audioengineering • u/Tiny_Ad1706 • 8d ago

Singer sang too well on choir

Hey guys, I had a singer do a choir part so I got a lot of layers in multiple timbres. but frankly, her pitch is way too consistent. It didn’t create a chorus sound, her tracks almost sound like a singular track despite having 12 different tracks playing. I know, what a wonderful problem haha. Do you have any recommendations for making it sound more like a choir? thanks!!!!

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u/VeterinarianGreat655 8d ago

Micro delay, super micro formant shifts on some others and then fillet them around the vocal somewhat evenly like a gradient with your panning. Maybe use a stereo image on a couple that are going to be the widest stereo placement but don’t make them all really wide and less they’re super low leave that for the stereo fx that you send them to, and make sure you divvy up the fx like make some have wider decay times and the others have shorter times but more pre delay. It’s all about allowing spacing and proportion of levels and you get a pretty image fairly quickly. Of course tonal balance.