Originally Posted By: Mark Rhodes

A song I'm working on needs a 'church choir' backing vocal part. ......

I could share stems of the song and distant folk could put their parts into a DAW and share them with me.

Is this sort of thing generally done? If it's verboten, I apologize!



Actually I don't see why not. In the old Cakewalk forums, I participated in several such adventures. The individual who needed the choir voices, or in one case, a bar room sing along.... simply created an mp3 of the song...told us where he needed us to sing... provided the lyric sheet and we simply downloaded the mp3, recorded our track or tracks, and sent them back to him. He asked us to return the tracks by a set deadline and quite a few folks participated. Post your invite in the songwriting forum, provide downloadable links for the mp3 and the lyrics. Be sure to include the ENTIRE song... not just the part you want folks to sing in. That way we can line it up properly and return a full length wave that YOU can line up properly and easily. No need to drag and try to line things up later in the mix. A real pain if you have a dozen tracks to line up. You can ask folks to post in the thread "I'm in" if they are participating so you have an idea as to how it's going.

Using the pay services can easily add up if you exceed the $5 limit and have a bunch of voices.... ask your friends and see what happens.

Good luck.

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