Doubling Lead Vocals?

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:27 am

i hate to say this but i get pretty good results when i am too lazy to sing a double vox using waves doubler. i keep the grequency mod (on the 2nd voice) pretty close to zero and duck the gain a bit behind the real one.

i know purists will kill me- but it works okay. if you are an expressive singer and , like me, never seem to sing my double track close to my original without a million takes (in which i lose my patience often)

it helps me to keep the flow of creativity going...

just my 2 cents

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:01 am

Filmmusic said:

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But, since Blues is what people should be singing....I would say to add the second vocal because blues is never the same way twice.

OK, which one of you turned that particular rock over???

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2008 2:11 am

Just filmmusic doing his thing. Whatever that thing may be...

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:38 am

Noob here...

Question. When you double the vocals, do you keep them the same volume, or do you have one quieter then the other?

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:05 am

Yes.

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:08 pm

Why would anyone consider doubling a vocal take cheating? It takes a lot of skill to be able to sing consistently enough to make doubling sound good. And when it works (when you have a good singer), it sounds great.

Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:52 pm

I've read in some places where they would have upto 4 tracks. Apparently Coldplay does this in some of their stuff just to fatten the vocal. I could see this being helpful with falsetto stuff as well to thicken those vocals.

Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:55 am

when i record my own songs, i tend to improv the vocals each and every take, (i've been to too many counting crows concerts i suppose) but i've found straight copying the vocal take from one track to the next, then chopping it up into several sections, (segments of 10 or so), then time stretching each segment by a ms or 3, and run it through some various (but gentle) processing of sorts, and tuck it (volume wise) under the original by a few db

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