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I have 30 vocal tracks singing various bits of a chorus. 5 different parts. Some parts have 8 voices, some 6, some 4. They're all me, so I can't have people singing together to get the track count down. It just sort of ended this way. The softer the part, the more voices sing it, generally...
Starts out with only one part going, but towards the end all five are going at once (what can I say, I like big choruses!) where they overlap, which isn't all the time. I have them grouped by part and can EQ, compress by group. And curreently am sending all groups to same reverb bus. I'm panning tracks individually (so far) and each part has some voices on the left, some on the right... Some parts are low in pitch (and I have a very low voice so there's some shelving going on in the EQing) and others are higher.
Hard to keep the general racket down and not drown everything else at towards the end. Backing is standard cleanish guitar, bass drums. Rock/pop song but reasonably sparse arrangement.
I haven't tried this yet but I'm thinking it might help if, in the overlapping parts, I cut the numbers down a bit - cut the 8s to 6 or 4, the 6s to 4. I'll have a crack at that tonight, but the automation gets a bit tiresome.
Just wondering if anyone had any general tips...???
Thanks in advance.
And..... WHAT WAS I THINKING?????
I have 30 vocal tracks singing various bits of a chorus. 5 different parts. Some parts have 8 voices, some 6, some 4. They're all me, so I can't have people singing together to get the track count down. It just sort of ended this way. The softer the part, the more voices sing it, generally...
Starts out with only one part going, but towards the end all five are going at once (what can I say, I like big choruses!) where they overlap, which isn't all the time. I have them grouped by part and can EQ, compress by group. And curreently am sending all groups to same reverb bus. I'm panning tracks individually (so far) and each part has some voices on the left, some on the right... Some parts are low in pitch (and I have a very low voice so there's some shelving going on in the EQing) and others are higher.
Hard to keep the general racket down and not drown everything else at towards the end. Backing is standard cleanish guitar, bass drums. Rock/pop song but reasonably sparse arrangement.
I haven't tried this yet but I'm thinking it might help if, in the overlapping parts, I cut the numbers down a bit - cut the 8s to 6 or 4, the 6s to 4. I'll have a crack at that tonight, but the automation gets a bit tiresome.
Just wondering if anyone had any general tips...???
Thanks in advance.
And..... WHAT WAS I THINKING?????