I would like to add effects to a female voice that ends up sounding like this one!

Does anyone know what FX plugins are used here....
Reverb or delay or shimmer or vibrato, or all of them ? and maybe what plugin names they are ?

I'm especially interested in the shimmering vibrato or tremolo, that female voice....

 

Lots of reverb and possibly a little delay. The vibrato is produced by the singer's voice.

 

I have no idea who the singer is but she has Celtic roots and the vibrato is very centric to that style of singing. In places her vibrato varies from medium to fast. Listen to Kate Bush's works - similar approaches...The prominence in the mix is kudos to the EQ'ing skill of the engineer. The reverb? It sounds like a convolution/algorithmic reverb and I would not try to guess the plugin. It does have plate qualities though I still would not guarantee that. An IR done in a Cathedral set to around 20% where the Cathedral is made from both timber and metal would give a similar effect.
Altiverb 7 or 2CAether you can achieve this easily.
In other words the tone, vibrato and phrasing is Celtic in approach and the rest I would only be guessing.

 

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You are right, it is indeed the natural female voice....I found it earlier via SHAZAMS.

it's "Clannad" in Schiller & Moya Brennan - Falling HD

Moya Brennan Pure
thank you

 

That would be a great spot to deploy some additional fx on the vocal. Was this done in Logic? The stock Modulation plugins are nearly the order you mentioned them in, vertically in that menu.

 

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The vibrato is natural. Here's a Kate Bush live with only piano. While not the greatest of her songs for me, each time she sings the word "breathing" her vibrato is fast and almost tremelo-like naturally like the woman in your post.
It's natural. FX do not produce the same vibrato, not even close. FX tends to be static/fixed being the same each time unless you change the knobs each time(highly unlikely). Human vibrato is variable. That's how you tell.

 

Yeah, sounds like natural "tremolo/shimmering". But depending of your source you can of course do it with a plugin. It won't sound as good probably.

 

Tremelos tend not to decay the same way, headphones will tell you. Sure you can play with the ADSR and get close but the breathing and voice air you cannot mimic even with a great reverb. You can of course sample a real voice and crossfade it but that too is not the same thing.

 

Agreed. It would need some brilliant modulation of some parameters of the plugin and still lack. I haven't heard examples of voice tremolos made by plugins and probably because it's too difficult as you say.

 

The old Antares - Auto Tune* 7 (491) The Create Vibrato Section - YouTube
Would have a "create vibrato" function, sounds roughly similar at >6:48
But would there be maybe a better FX plugin for it?
What do you think?

Of course no comparison to here: (491) Schiller & Moya Brennan - Falling HD - YouTube

to the Natural Vibrato by Moya Brennan

 

btw, vibrato = pitch, tremolo = volume fluctuations.
Don't be confused by the 'trem' or whammy bar on a guitar, that actually creates vibrato and not tremolo :D

 

Send (parallel)->EQ/filter (wide mid-range bandpass)->plate/shimmer->delay->Leslie

 

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