Quite bluntly,
The obvious thing to do actually wouldn't be to get ProTools, but would be
to get someone who could sing correctly in the range needed for the harmoney
part and do it naturally. Otherwise, it's gonna sound terrible! Yes, you
can raise the pitch, but then you look at two problems. Firstly, the person
will either 1, sound all chipmunk like, or 2, they will sound all chipmunk
like, plus if you force it to only adjust the pitch, not the speed, then
you'll introduce really weird sounding artifacts. coming from me being a
professional sound engineer who does this for a living, trust me, just to do
pitch correction, is probably not what you're looking for here. It does
have it's time and place, yes, and without hearing the raw vocal, it's hard
to say, but I just can't see that being the best way to work through this.
Chris.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gordon Smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 11:29 AM
Subject: Sound recording, music, vocal tracks
Hi all
This is probably going to sound a bit of a strange question, but here
goes anyway. I've been asked to work with a young lady who wants to do
some vocali for the jingles on our new comamunity radio station which we
are opening up for the people of our town on 5 Nevember. If she prepares
a vocal track, is there any way we can use that track with a higher pitch
so that we can create a vocal harmony mix? I'm sure you know the kind of
thing I'm talking about, it is something you hear a lot of in
professionally recorded muksic.
Unfortunately, I don't have access to ProTools yet, as it is out of our
price range just at the moment. We do, however, have access to a number
of other audio editors/recording tools such as Peak Express, NCH Software
WavePad, Amadeus Pro and quite a few others. I also have access to
GarageBand, of course, and I'd really like to get into using that because
I'd love to be able to use virtual instruments with my M Audio keyboard.
But unfortunately, I don't consider myself nearly qualified enough to
attempt a mission-critical recording "sing GarageBand at this point in
time.
I very much welcome advice and opinion either on or off list. Of course,
I know that the obvious answer here would be either to get hold of a copy
of ProTools, or else let somebody else do this work. But neither is an
option just now. So it's a matter of making do with what we've got.
KIND regards
Gordon Smith
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