doubling vocals
I have a hard time with my own vocals and maybe its' just a subjective thing, but I have successfully done others. Male and female voices. Sometimes its the materials fault. But, overall, I think it's a subjective thing, because if you really listen, you can hear that a lead vocal is doubled. Otherwise, you don't notice. The stated technique is to sing a duplicate part and then mix the second part a little below the main vocal. sometimes the parts are panned hard right and left. (Lynard Skynard did that on "Call me the breeze". All of my successful doubling came about from second takes that were as good as the first and just got left on by accident. I would assume that's how they came up with the technique in the first place. It doesn't seem used as much these days and doubling by electronic means doesn't sound the same to me. That can sound like ADT or digital delay. ADT was something the Beatles started using because they got so tired of double tracking. About the time of Revolver. I think it was something like digital delay and to my ears, it sounds tinny and artificial. It might be the reason for how the vocals sound on that album.