Audacity Forum

I was having the same issues as you, but I think I've found a fairly successful way to turn one person (i.e. me) into what sounds like a choir. Mine is a six-person choir, but you could always go for less or more. For this to work, you have to have very basic music theory knowledge. You can hear the results in the included mp3.

1. Sing song like normal.
2. Locate the first note of your song on the piano (Example was F)
This will be your chord note start
3. Find the other notes to the chord (This is where music theory comes in handy. My example chord is F which consists of F, A, and C)
4. On a new track, sing song again, but this time your start note will be the next one in line (Example would be A)
5. Repeat step four with final note (Example would be C)
6. Copy and paste all three tracks
7. On your copies (tracks 4-6), go into Effects/Change Pitch and set it where it says
From: To:
(Key) # (Key) # Lower
(Example: F#/Gb 4 to F#/Gb 3)

And there's you a six-person choir. If your voice is lower, you may be able to go up a number too (F#/Gb 4 to F#/Gb 5. If you sing very high, you may be able to go another step lower (F#/Gb 4 to F#/Gb 2)

Hope this is helpful. It's not as perfect as an actual choir, but it can get the job accomplished.

Keryshna wrote:And there's you a six-person choi

Though unfortunately quite distorted.
To avoid the distortion, assuming that Audacity is set to the default 32 bit float format, select all of the tracks and from the Tracks menu choose "Mix and Render". This will mix all of the tracks down to one track, but it will probably sound very loud and distorted, so then you need to bring the level down to below 0 dB. Use the "Normalize" or "Amplify" effect to do that.

To get a "fuller" sound you can then add other effects such as Reverb and Compression.