Any tricks to make a male voice sound like a female voice?

[doc7string]

I have used pitch shifting on my own (male) voice to do background vocals/harmonies with a fairly realistic sounding female voice, but that's background vocals. Sometimes I need a female voice for a lead vocal, and honestly have nobody who will do it for me unless I pay them, and well, I don't really want to pay anyone so I came hear for advice. Of course I would like to avoid pitch shifting as I would have to record a scratch track of the song, sing the song in that key, shift the voice and rerecord the music in the correct key and end up with a less than realistic voice anyway. Or I could pitch shift everything, but I think that would just turn into a complete mess. I saw that autotune has throat modeling, would this do the trick? Or, is this a waste of time and effort with no chance of being successful. As a songwriter, I am just trying to put together a decent pitch demo for a female singerut dont want to break the bank.

[FMiguelez]

.

You can change, or more realistically, give the appearance of a vocal sex change with one of DP's plugs. But I wouldn't recommend this for any serious work, unless you are experimenting and you want artifacts on purpose.

HIRE A REAL SINGER (if you want the best results)! Otherwise, the results won't even be anywhere near a decent-sounding "demo". It will probably sound even funny.

And I know of no other plug-in that can do this realistically or convincingly, at least not for professional work...

[newrigel]

Good luck... you'll need a chick.

[doc7string]

Can't say I didn't expect this answer, I just rather put the money toward equipment. I guess its time to face reality. Damn I sure do wish my wife could sing (she's a wonderful and beautiful lady, but as far as singing goes, you don't wanna go there. Thanks guys!

[newrigel]

Can't say I didn't expect this answer, I just rather put the money toward equipment. I guess its time to face reality. Damn I sure do wish my wife could sing (she's a wonderful and beautiful lady, but as far as singing goes, you don't wanna go there. Thanks guys!

You could run a formant process on your vox but it wouldn't really have that true airy quality and formant of a female voice. Sounds like whispering you know?

[FMiguelez]

Can't say I didn't expect this answer, I just rather put the money toward equipment. I guess its time to face reality. Damn I sure do wish my wife could sing (she's a wonderful and beautiful lady, but as far as singing goes, you don't wanna go there. Thanks guys!

You could run a formant process on your vox but it wouldn't really have that true airy quality and formant of a female voice. Sounds like whispering you know?

Well, he could get whisper-sounding spatial monkeys or airy chipmunks with formant processes

[James Steele]

Did somebody mention vice grips yet?

[newrigel]

Did somebody mention vice grips yet?

[BKK-OZ]

Never as good as the real thing, but Antares' THROAT Evo Physical Modeling Vocal Designer on special until Midnight tonite.

[cloudsplitter]

Eunuchs have high voices I've heard

[doc7string]

I knew there would be some fun had over this . I'm not brave enough to try the vice grips idea, but for those of you that have, did you get good results? ;8^)