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From:  bjjocelyn <bjjocelyn@p...>
Date:  Tue Nov 19, 2002  2:02 am
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] versatility

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Dean FH Macy wrote:

The sound of a chorus is unique because most
people in a chorus do not have perfect pitch. If they did, the
resulting sound would be dull/flat sounding. The members in a chorus
sing on pitch and somewhere between the lower edge and upper edge of
pitch. This sound, the 'detuned' chorus, sets up harmonies, call it a
natural vibrato, which yields a rich, full sound.

John Link replied:

This important phenomenon is not "vibrato", but rather the "chorus
effect". It is the same phenomenon that allows us to distinguish the sound
of one violin from that of a violin section.

BJJA adds:

John Link's on sync: electronically speaking, vibrato gets simulated
applying a single Low Frequency Oscillator (LFO) modulation onto the miked
sound, whereas chorus is the outcome of a modulation by two simultaneous
either detuned or cross-phased LFOs. Which shows both effects are different.
The former virtually vertical (vibrato "thickness"), the latter horizontal
(chorus "width"). And both can combine for an even richer sound, like Karen
Mercedes incidentally pointed it out.









  Replies Name/Email Yahoo! ID Date  
21001 Re: versatilityLloyd W. Hanson lwh1 Wed  11/20/2002  
21071 Re: versatilitybjjocelyn   Fri  11/22/2002  
21085 Re: versatilityLloyd W. Hanson lwh1 Sat  11/23/2002  

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