Make a bad singer sound good

[jgetman]

I know that there is no way to turn a bad musician into a good musician without practice - that's not what I'm asking.

What I am asking is, other than compression, what are some post-production strategies for improving the sound quality of the vocals?

 

[struberg]

There are some mighty tricks

a.) run them thru antares autotune if he yowles

b.) slightly reverb and chorus can hide a bad micing a little bit

c.) DETUNE up a little on the left, down on the right and reverb afterwards (done on many femal hiphop voices) maybe a little chorus on the detuned ones

d.) you manually can do c) by doubling or overlaying with another take (but thats hard work )

e.) play also with delays and equalizers (maybe transforming it to a telephone song )

greets,
the suburban science orchestra

 

[Track Rat]

And just to add to struberg's good advice, shoot him or her before they can breed.

 

[RWhite]

Best post -production move - bring in another singer.

And then see if he/she notices.