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cryophonik
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Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Elk Grove, CA USA
Idea Your favorite vocal effect techniques

I'm working on a few new vocal house/trance tracks and I'm looking for some new ideas to try, inspiration, etc. I've been hearing some pretty cool sounding vocal tracks from you guys over on the songs forum, so c'mon, don't be stingy - tell us your techniques, tools, etc.


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Zombie0729
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Registered: Oct 2003
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i put this in the Madonna thread... i'll input a vocal into melodyne and wipe clear all the vibrato and usually move the pitch to all the same note. makes anyone sound like a robot, i'll attach a cool filter to it and boom, instant 'robot bridge'

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Ry Thomas
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Not really tricks as such


Take a vocal sample, make 2 more copies of it so you then have 3.
Have 1 centered, 1 panned hard left, 1 hard right.
Add reverb to the central vocal, add the same vocal to the L and right R vocal but use a slightly longer predelay. Thickens the sound up considerably.


Reversed reverb is always a nice way to introduce a vocal, maybe sidechain the reversed sample too


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echosystm
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quote:
Originally posted by Ry Thomas
Take a vocal sample, make 2 more copies of it so you then have 3.
Have 1 centered, 1 panned hard left, 1 hard right.
Add reverb to the central vocal, add the same vocal to the L and right R vocal but use a slightly longer predelay. Thickens the sound up considerably.


i think this would just cause phasing

normally when you do this type of effect, you take two (mono of course) sounds and pan one hard right, the other hard left. then you shift one of them forward by a few ms. this stops the phasing and gives an interesting stereo effect.

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Zombie0729
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quote:
Originally posted by echosystm
i think this would just cause phasing

normally when you do this type of effect, you take two (mono of course) sounds and pan one hard right, the other hard left. then you shift one of them forward by a few ms. this stops the phasing and gives an interesting stereo effect.


yup! scott & i have found moving it up 8-12ms is the best (and we actually use a delay to do it rather than by hand)

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theartfulducker
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I like to put nice strong overdrive on vocals in the drops etc and filter them so they sound downright dirty!!


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Theran
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Registered: Mar 2008
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I have actually used the following thing on the vocal of "The longest road". I was really trying to figure out how reverse reverb was working when I found this out:

- Take you vocal sample, reverse it and put a gigantic amount of reverb on it.
- Bounce the reversed vocal with reverb to a seperate audio track.
- Insert the reversed vocal with reverb, and reverse it again (so it 'll be correct again, with reverb ofcourse.
- Put it under you 'clean' vocal sample, and ofcourse turn the level down a little.

What you'll have now is a sort of reversed reverb during the entire vocal, this brings out some really nice effect. If anyone wants, I''ll post a sample.


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music2dance2
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i'd like to hear a sample please?

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Zak McKracken
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i havent had the chance working with vocals yet

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music2dance2
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Registered: Jul 2001
Location: U.K.

as others have said the option to have more than one copy of the sample and delaying it slightly.

You could also have a 2nd sample at a slightly different pitch and maybe delayed by serveral MS

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Theran
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quote:
Originally posted by music2dance2
i'd like to hear a sample please?


I'll upload one when I'll get home, I'm with my mother-in-law now


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