Vocal Widening Technique - TheRecordingRevolution.com

In this video I go over a simple technique to get your vocals sounding big and wide. Think traditional vocal doubling but taken to the next level.

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Music

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• recording
• pro
• tools
• vocals
• doubling
• mixing
• technique
• widening
• editing

[BeyondtheEndMetal]

Also, Graham, does the whole fake widening thing feel really weird on your ears compared to a natural double (recording the dub)? For some reason it plays really weird tricks on my ears....lol sounds so weird almost like its not there..but it is...probably because its so perfect.

[recordingrevolution]

@BeyondtheEndMetal It's always better to do a natural double or triple if you can. If things sound weird then adjust the delay of the left and right tracks a bit till things sit better.

[BeyondtheEndMetal]

Graham, you said that you perceive the audio in the left ear louder? I've used the waves doubler for so many projects and the left was ALWAYS louder, but always showed up as the same volume on the meters and it was driving me NUTS...I've calibrated my monitors so much but this was freaking me out and screwing with me...do you happen to know why this happens?

[recordingrevolution]

@BeyondtheEndMetal I miss spoke in the video. It's purely because the left signal comes first in time (at least in this example). It is weird, and I just try to compensate for it till things sound right to me.

[MythicalNumber]

This is all cool, thanks for the tip.....but what do you do processing wise?? How do you treat the 3 tracks with plugins? EQS, Comp, Verb, Delays and stuff? Are you putting the same FXS on all 3? How do you manage?

Thanks body.

[recordingrevolution]

@MythicalNumber Check out my video on this it's called Vocal Processing.

[Kizamime]

You're a lifesaver.

[Spacecz]

Thanks man!

[RekstarBeats]

whyed you do the exact same video twice..thanks for the tutorial.

[ImDino]

This trick made it so much better, and im finding it haaaard too believe!

[ShadoutMusic]

He is makin us to think that this is too freakin good to belive... proof 3:01 "Ull see what u will find"..."Im finding it hard to belive" :)

[dolemic000G]

NAMASTE!!!

[brianlw23]

Man your voice on this video sounds like Judd Nelson from the Breakfast Club!

[duendelg]

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[EnMandsMusik]

I think the swedish group ABBA did that kind of thing all the time back in the 70 an 80'ties. Thats how they got their vocal to sond the way it did. They recorded voices back and forth to get the timediff. So its not a new idea but it is very easy to do in a DAW.