The Crow Hill Company’s Vaults series is a treasure trove of free sounds with a twist, and their latest addition is the Wavering Choir.
The twist is that the contents of the vault are ever-changing. Each new release remains in the vault for six months, and a previous release is removed with each new addition.
You can use anything you download for life, but once it’s gone, there’s no more downloading; it’s gone and never to be seen again! (No one knows where they go)
Wavering Choir is the latest addition, and like most releases from The Crow Hill Company, it has an interesting story.
The choir, consisting of primarily Scottish singers, was recorded at Clockwork Studios in Glasgow, a lovely repurposed church that also served as the scoring stage for Spitfire Audio’s Albion Colossus.
Wavering Choir has an inherently Celtic character with a rawness that heightens any target emotion, whether sad or triumphant, because it feels more human.
The Crow Hill Company instructed all singers to rearticulate their vowel sounds with a wide vibrato, creating a wavering pitch effect.
The core character is already interesting enough, but the wavering effect emotionally takes it to another level.
The drifting motion makes the sound more interesting, creating these interweaving patterns within sustained chords.
More importantly, it highlights the previously mentioned rawness, which lends itself well to many different applications. Eerie sequences sound a little creepier, defiant passages sound more assertive with that strength-in-vulnerability quality, and so on.
You might have six months to download Wavering Choir, but don’t forget many Black Friday sales will end soon, including limited-time freebies from Waves and Air Music Tech.
Wavering Choir features the standard Vaults GUI; the main dials are Timbre and Distance.
Timbre is a custom-made dynamic filter, and the Distance control allows you to blend the spot mic with the Decca Tree above the choir.
The smaller dials are Balance, Mod, Echo, and Splosh.
Balance lets you blend and transition through the lower and higher registers of the choir. The Mod dial adds more aggressive movement through frequency modulation.
Vaults users will be familiar with Echo and Splosh, the stereo tape delay and reverb combo with a reversible signal chain.
Wavering Choir sounds stunning, and with a little fader controller (or MIDI keyboard faders), it really comes to life.
The Crow Hill App is available in AU, VST, VST3, and AAX formats for macOS (11 – 14. X) and Windows (10-11).
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