Echo...Plz help?

[Goss-stick]

Okay so I know how to put an echo on adlibs or intro's or outro's while theres talking and all. But how bout a certain word in a verse? How whats the best way to apply an echo in that case?

For example: I sent up an echo on an auxillary track and bus the track I want an echo on. They mute what I don't want to echo. But that won't work if I bus my verse... So what then?

 

[bennychico11]

Okay so I know how to put an echo on adlibs or intro's or outro's while theres talking and all. But how bout a certain word in a verse? How whats the best way to apply an echo in that case?

For example: I sent up an echo on an auxillary track and bus the track I want an echo on. They mute what I don't want to echo. But that won't work if I bus my verse... So what then?

Then automate the bus. You can either automate the mute button on the send or the volume level going to your aux track.
Or separate the audio you want to add the echo/delay effect...and drag it to a new track. Then you can put the plugin on that track.

 

[Goss-stick]

Then automate the bus. You can either automate the mute button on the send or the volume level going to your aux track.
Or separate the audio you want to add the echo/delay effect...and drag it to a new track. Then you can put the plugin on that track.

So when you day seperate audio track like cut out the piece and put it on its own track and adda echo to that track?

 

[bennychico11]

So when you day seperate audio track like cut out the piece and put it on its own track and adda echo to that track?

yeah...that's one way of doing it.

 

[philbagg]

You can also cut that word and place it on an identical track, and send that track to the echo. It's handy if you want to do this a few times throughout the song, and all you have to do is move the parts onto the new track. However, it does require more processing/voice count.

 

[Goss-stick]

You can also cut that word and place it on an identical track, and send that track to the echo. It's handy if you want to do this a few times throughout the song, and all you have to do is move the parts onto the new track. However, it does require more processing/voice count.

Yeah this is how i was trying to explain and meant. If there are lots of parts you want to cut out and put on another track this would be the best way to do it right? If theres only one or two words i guess automating it would be a better choice?

 

[philbagg]

Yeah this is how i was trying to explain and meant. If there are lots of parts you want to cut out and put on another track this would be the best way to do it right? If theres only one or two words i guess automating it would be a better choice?

Yeah, saves a lot of processing. And if you change any effects on one track you'd have to do it to the other.

Automation's your best bet.

 

[Goss-stick]

Yeah, saves a lot of processing. And if you change any effects on one track you'd have to do it to the other.

Automation's your best bet.

So my best bet is tocut the words out onto another track and then automate it?

 

[austinm08]

So my best bet is tocut the words out onto another track and then automate it?

No, do not create another track. Just automate the original track.

In the delay you're using, you can choose which parameters to include for automation. Then automate those parameters so the delay isn't happening for the entire length of the song, but only the words you want it for.