Hi Bobbi,
Have you considered using your recorded voice, and mixing several takes of
that with a couple of different VST choirs? It would surprise you as to
how
many great vocal patches are out there!
You could probably mix things to where your breaths wouldn't be
noticeable.
The other thing might be a vocal gate effect on each part.
As far as getting parts to drone, copying and pasting might work if you
are
keeping things to a good measure.
My two cents worth.
There are some amazing folks on this list who have lots of great ideas.
Tim
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On
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 12:12 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Wanted: Suggestions for vocal drones
Hi Tim,
Indeed staggered breathing is something I've tried. The problem is that I
either need to find a way to breathe more quietly or lower the volume of
the
breaths in general. The breaths take away from the overall consistency of
the sound, in my opinion. I suppose I could go into each layer and cut
them
all out but I don't think that'd be the most efficient solution. This is
why I'm looking for other suggestions. If worse comes to worst I can just
learn how to control the sound of my breath better, or else deal with the
breath sounds from all that staggered breathing, but I wanted to see if
there were other ideas that I might not know about.
Most Sincerely,
Bobbi
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From: "Tim Martin" <atmartin59@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 11:09 AM
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Wanted: Suggestions for vocal drones
Why don't you try staggering the breaths as they're recorded. All you
would need to do is make sure the breaths aren't taken at the same
time.
Hope it helps.
Tim
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From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On
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Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 11:03 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Wanted: Suggestions for vocal drones
Hello List,
This is a bit of a tough situation to describe, so have patience with
me while I work through this.
I'm very fond of layering vocals atop one another to create virtual
choirs, like Enya does. Digital tech doesn't always sound as natural
as when you actually take the time to layer. There are random factors
that choruses and such seem to miss.
Anyway what I'd like to do is create a sort of vocal drone in the
background of a piece. A four or five part chord made up of several
layers per part stacked atop each other to create an ethereal backdrop
of human voices.
The
piece is free tempo, or as close to it as I can get anyway without
having to follow a strict click, so it works well enough. My problem
is that staggered breathing makes it to where random breaths occur in
the vocals that take away from what I'm trying to do. What I'd like
to do is create a 10 or 15 second drone so no breaths occur
throughout, and then loop it so it drones on through the rest of the
piece. The question would be how to loop it and not get that dreaded
pop that sometimes happens when stuff like that isn't done properly.
I've done this in Goldwave when I was still experimenting with
layering and mixing tracks together through crossfading. While it
worked, I'm not sure if it's the best way to go about the loop. If it
is, how would I go about that using Sonar? I'd hate to have to use a
completely separate editor just to get a drone to loop properly. What
do you guys suggest?
Most Sincerely,
Bobbi
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