Handy vocal mixing "trick".

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ole girl can sing.

I've got a question for you. There's a song by Imogen Heap called Hide and Seek. What did she do to her voice there???

Check it Here!
 
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..
 
It's a cool trick. I've been doing this for years with an ART DRX. I call it the "Ozzie-izer".
 
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 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Very nice. Where can we hear the whole track, I'm interested in the track. Love her voice.
 
tango44 said:
Very nice. Where can we hear the whole track, I'm interested in the track. Love her voice.
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Sorry. This is quite old, and the original poster has come and gone--in numerous personas.
 
JonPaulP said:
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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