Sarah McLachlan "de doo doos"--how'd they dee do that?

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Hi all,

On Sarah McLachlan's "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" (which I really love the recorded sound of, actually more so than several of the songs), there are a couple of tracks with McLachlan singing background vocals, basically "doo doo de doo" kinds of sounds.

They sound sampled, and possibly doubled by synths with vocal patches. But does anybody know the real scoop? I'd love to be able to incorporate into my own recordings on Cakewalk Sonar.

Ed
 
Um....which song? I remember them on "Plenty" and "Fear".....
"Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" is the name of the album, but also the name of the last song (track #12 on the US Arista release, catalog # 07822-18725-2). The last song is really two songs, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, and after a minute of silence, a piano version of "Posession". Neither has any "do-doo"'s I can hear..
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On "Fear" it sounds like there's two tracks of the "do-doo"s, one faint with another louder a moment later, with both sync'd to the music. It also sounds like some sort of "telephone"-style effect was used.
 
Doug,

Exactly--I should have posted the individual song titles, but it's "Plenty" and "Fear". It sounds like a similar effect on each song, and I was wondering how her producer got that sound.

I had assumed it was sampling, but it sounds like you're saying they're live tracks, but with several effects on them, if I understand you correctly.

Ed
 
I haven't listened to them in awhile but I think there was the Telephone effect like Doug said. That is just EQ cuts on the highs and lows and a little distortion.

On Fear I think they used Preverb. That is when you play a track in reverse and run it through reverb and record the wet signal. When you reverse the reverb track you then have reverb that occurs before the actual sound. They may have used a little pre-delay on that also.
 
Texas and Doug,

Thanks for your input--as I said, they're really intreguing effects, and I'd like to incorporate them into my own recording.

I appreciate having some direction towards creating vocal effects that are similar.

Ed
 
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