[BC] Off-key choir

[Chris Gebhardt]

WBRadiolists at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 02/07/2009 5:42:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
> warp99 at hotmail.com writes:
> 
>> I know of one church in Tucson, that happened to have a very well equipped 
>> AV booth (and a very savvy audio guy who ran it) where they used ProTools 
> to 
>> fix problems with off-key choir singers.  In real time.
>>   
>>  Allen Sherrill
> 
> Let me guess... it's a multi-thousand member "mega-church"? :)
> 
> This can only work if each choir member is individually mic'ed, and there is 
> minimal pickup of the voices on every side of him/her. If one person's voice 
> is off-key, but the person next to them is not, when you pull the off-key voice 
> on-key, that will pull the on-key, off-mic voice out-of-key.

Not exactly.  It's actually possible to apply pitch correction that you 
can adjust everything within X cents of a desired note.

We've actually used this in live performance to apply pitch correction 
and harmonies to multiple singers on a shared mic before.

Let me be clear:  I *HATE* it.   But it can work.

Chris Gebhardt
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