Jim wrote: ↑Tue Jun 01, 2021 3:31 pmImpressive!
Thanks!
We've become a little more adventurous since then. Here is Palestrina's Gloria Patri from last Sunday (Trinity Sunday):
https://youtu.be/eysuHL0iiJQ
This time, I created my own double-choir.
Same 14 voices for Main and Echo except that I doubled the octave for the final Amen — the only two notes I sing. Some singers submitted Main and Echo tracks; for those who didn't, I split the Echo out in DP so that I could process the two groups separately.
To differentiate the two choirs, I used DP's MW Limiter on each of the Main tracks. For the Echo only, no limiter on the individual tracks plus I ran all voices in Melodyne Studio—correcting all the Eco pitches gave me a thinner, less full sound.
brainworx_limiter True Peak on the Master bus only saved me hours trying to get the Main right without a ton of distortion and let me balance it with the Echo — nearly as loud. True Peak is my new best friend for dense vocal tracks (the only kind I deal with). The Reverb was the Large Hall setting on Exponential Audio's PhoenixVerb set to 75% — again, on the Master only.
I did not process dynamics at all other than two overall settings for the Main and Echo. I did edit all the consonants for timing and the closing to the
"nnnn" at the end. That's what takes all the time.
The video recordings were done on Zoom. I edited the videos, stripped the original audio and dropped the DP track in Adobe Premiere Elements. For what I do, PE is faster than FCPx.