Help! Mastering 4-part Acappella Vocals, Mastering Options

[eyeMAJIC]

Hi there,

Just wondering if anyone has any experience of this... 4-part close harmony vocals, unaccompanied.
I'm having trouble getting a good, full sound from the unusual frequency distribution of the raw recording without making it sound "contrived".

Any tips on EQ/compression or post processing? I would much appreciate it! The plug ins I have availabe are listed below; recommendations on other suitable ones would be great.
The vocal parts are just recorded straight into PT with a little compression using a RODE NT1, then processed with very mild use of AutoTune.

Many thanks!

eM.

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TiBook 800 OS 9.2.2
Digi 002
Maxtor 7200 1394 audio drive
Protools LE 5.3.2
Digi Maxim
Waves Gold bundle
Autotune 3
AltiVerb
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[cathode]

I have a suggestion for your problem!
One thing about auto tune is that it can make things too perfect.
There are, even in a group of highly skilled vocalists, subtle intonation anomalies.
By removing these, you can end up with a bit of "plastic" in your performance.
You might try correcting the flubs by enabling auto tune only when needed and with, as you say light intensity.
You also might try panning the voices a bit so that you have low and high harmonies mixed on sides rather than like pitches grouped in your space. Also, by adding a slight delay, perhaps 8-15 Ms, to one of each of the panned voices you will create distance between the two voices. This is a fantastic way to create depth to a soundstage and in fact, in the old days, when I had to work with those crummy Neve comsoles and AMS delays and reverbs we were forced to use these archaic devices. Just think, a $7000 plug in that only did one thing at a time. What a shame!!
However, nothing like grabbing a big, fat bakelite knob and twiddling the sound in!
I hope this helps a bit.
Oh BTW you might try some reverb on only one voice per side or even only one centered voice.
This gives the impression of space but makes the other voices sound like they are licking your ear, or as one producer asked me to create... "make it sound like she's licking the mike"!