effects on vocals

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Just wanted to find out on what kind of processing is taking place on vocals you hear on commercial cd's?(besides expensive mics, expensive consoles, expensive everything...)

What I am after is this...

Lets say a Celine Deon Cd---how do we get that vocal effect?
In simple layman's terms--is that just a reverb? or a delay?
or both applied in one way or the other???


When I play around with this....reverb makes the vocals distant and with a long decay time. played with wet/dry mix levels too..

I guess it would help to hear from someone who knows what to apply to get that vocal sounding solid, upfront and with effects on it!--not like someone singing in a tunnel!!!

thanks...
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Use a Bpm Delay. with that you can control the amount of decay and get a nice "revurb/Delay"
 
kktk said:
Lets say a Celine Deon Cd---how do we get that vocal effect?
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How about finding a singer that has just as strong of a voice as Celine does.:eek:
 
I'm after the recording techniques used to get there.

although a celine deon would also work ;)
 
Yo Twice K:

If you get the dial too far on the reverb, yea, verily, you get mush.

But, if you run several algorithms of reverb and play with the voice track or tracks, you can do some great stuff.

And, with an outboard unit like the Alesis midi-verb 3, [I think} you can tweak a patch and save it. Sometimes the singer has strange pipes and you have to tweak a reverb to get the best of the talent.

If you spend, like, four hours just working with the reverb, you will discover good things. I'm referring to one song and 4 hours of work on the reverb before you do the mix.

When you get there, it's a hellova lot of fun and reward.

Green Hornet:D
 
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