How to Record for Virtual Choir

What is a Virtual Choir

A virtual Choir is a consolidation of Choral singer in a virtual space. The singers could be geographically dispersed and the voices are brought together and mixed at a central point using sound editing / mixing softwares.

Participants of the Choir would record their portion of the song and send it to the sound editing team. A video of the person singing will also be sent to make music videos of the Virtual Choir. All of the portions are edited and mixed together to gain harmony, eventually making it a virtual choral singing performance.

An example of a Virtual Choir performance can be seen as below



How to Record your Voice for a Virtual Choir

  1. Once you get you notes to sing (Soprano, Alto, Tenor or Bass).
  2. Learn your portion (song), the music tones of your parts would be available.
  3. Use a earphone mic (mandatory) to record your song / singing (make sure that only the voice is recorded, the tones sent for learning the choral parts should not come in the audio recording)
  4. Make sure that the room is silent (ensure the fan / Air conditioning are put off, Close windows - bird chirping get recorded at times, at the same time the recording should not have echos)
  5. Send it to the Choir master over Whatsapp.
  6. Once the Choir Master approve the recording, it will be forwarded for sound mixing / editing.

How to Record Video for a Virtual Choir

  1. Try to frame your video as per the below picture - This is a guideline to follow.
  2. Just like a Choir uniformity is important
  3. The best option is to set up the phone / camera on a flat surface where you get a good frame like that of the below picture. (ideally don't depend on shaky hands)
  4. Make sure that the background is of a solid colour, preferably a wall.
  5. Record the whole part, the videos focus is more on the lip movement rather than how well you are singing. Expressions bring more beauty to the video.
  6. After recording the video, send the video over Whatsapp to the Choir Master.
  7. If not whatsapp, other options like Google Drive or Drop box could also be used to retain the video quality (for the moment this could be considered as an option and not necessary)



Once the audio and video of the song / singing is sent, you are all set to wait for the release fo the Virtual Choir video.

Wish us Good luck!


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