Handy vocal mixing "trick".

Ford Van, thanks for the info. I just tried that techinique on a few tunes that I'm working on. It really sounds great on one of them...as you said, it's not for everything.
 
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Yeah, I find that it really isn't that great on a vocal that needs an "intimate" feel.

In rock songs, it can be pretty nice.

You can warp this effect even farther with a bit more delay and more pitch shift and get that Ozzy Osborne type of vocal effect.
 
4 - Pitch shift one track UP 12 cents (this would be .12 semitones).
5 - Pitch shift the other track DOWN 12 cents (this would be -.12 semitones)

I mention the .12 because some pitch shifters go by semitones instead of cents (the Cakewalk one goes by semitones, but the Sony product went be cents). 100 cents equals a semitone.
Sorry, I am making a big deal about this, but it is important that you get the pitch setting right! A 12 semitone change would not be so good!
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if i was using adobe audition where would i do this?
 
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man this is real helpful...good post..and i swear i heard her before somewhere..
 
Ford Van said:
Yeah, I find that it really isn't that great on a vocal that needs an "intimate" feel.QUOTE]


I’m sorry if I’m greedy but what are some good techniques if you need an intimate feel?
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Dude Thanks That Was The Most Helpful Thing Of All Time. I Am Using Logic Studio And You Just Made This So Much Easier Once Again Thanx !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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How do you pitch shift and down 0.12 semitones in Cubase?
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It's not 12 semitones--that would be too much! It's 12 cents--that's 12 one hundredths of a tone. In Cubase (SX3 anyway) you select the chunck of audio, then select Audio > Process > Pitch Shift.

There's a place to change by semitones and cents. Cents has a text entry field labeled Fine Tune. You can go up or down.
 
Thanks for the reply WhiteStrat! I use Cubase Essential 4 and couldn't find the pitch shift option in the audio process tab. I did a quick google search and found out that I have to use the "audiowarp" feature in my version of Cubase. I have no clue where that is, LOL.

Also, what does Ford Van mean by this: "Insert a delay set to 25ms, with no feedback (repeats) on each track".

Is it a Ping Pong Delay he's talking about? What's "ms"?
 
JonPaulP said:
Thanks for the reply WhiteStrat! I use Cubase Essential 4 and couldn't find the pitch shift option in the audio process tab. I did a quick google search and found out that I have to use the "audiowarp" feature in my version of Cubase. I have no clue where that is, LOL.

Also, what does Ford Van mean by this: "Insert a delay set to 25ms, with no feedback (repeats) on each track".

Is it a Ping Pong Delay he's talking about? What's "ms"?
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ms= milliseconds. You can just slide the track forward by the amount of ms you want. Cubase should show a little bubble that says how much it's moving the audio. Each ms is .001 seconds.

Otherwise, he is talking about adding a mono delay with no feedback and no original signal either.
 
NL5 said:
ms= milliseconds. You can just slide the track forward by the amount of ms you want. Cubase should show a little bubble that says how much it's moving the audio. Each ms is .001 seconds.

Otherwise, he is talking about adding a mono delay with no feedback and no original signal either.
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Yep, that's how I do it.
 
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