I am in a choir in school. I'm a soprano singer. And sometimes it's hard to balance out the voices, cos the sopranos are much in number. We can't achieve the hourglass formation though because we have few Bass singers.
But, we try to even things out by making the sopranos and altos sing in a soft voice, it works a little. The sopranos also dip their heads while hitting the high notes so we don't drown out the others.
If you have any other tips, maybe you can share. Thank you @papaudeme
The best possible solution in this case would be to reduce the number of the soprano singers by getting some sopranos to do the alto part as it is much easier for a soprano to sing an alto part than for an alto singer to take the soprano part. You get a few sopranos to sing alto and get some tenors to take the bass or baritone. You will discover that some tenors can comfortably sing the bass and baritone part but it will somehow be hard for a bass singer to take a tenor part. So a little bit of this reshuffling may go a long way in helping to bring balance. The goal is to have more outer parts and less inner parts. Thanks for stopping by.
I hear you, we'll try to do that. I just hope people will be willing to leave their comfort zone. Thanks @papaudeme