vocal enhancement tip

[homestudio1]

I'm sure this tip was discovered already, but I've not seen it on this board:

1) Lock vocal track in time
2) Double vocal track by pressing the shift key and right mouse key, and move it to other tracks. You now have double vocal tracks.
3) Delay the second track by 30ms (click on track, right mouse key, waveform info, and add 30ms; ex: xx:xx.411+30ms = xx:xx.441.)
4) Pan the original track to -75 and the new track to +75

- cool enhancement, stereo effect.

Good on guitar as well.

 

[esactun]

It is a neat effect. I like it in certain places.

You can get that "traveling reverb" sound a similar way... take, say, a guitar track, and copy it to another track. Apply reverb to the copied track, so that the track is ALL reverb (100% wet out, 0% dry out), of whatever reverb you choose. Shift reverb track 20 or more milliseconds ahead of the original dry track. Pan on opposite sides to taste.

 

[homestudio1]

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to try that one this evening. If interested, all MP3s posted on www.yvesb.com are recorded using Cool Edit Pro ver. 1.2 - no hardware effects.

 

[VotaIdiota]

just in case anyone doesn't know, you can get some serious phase issues between the two tracks if you don't add any effects (other than delay) to the second track, since they're both the exact same take.

 

[homestudio1]

esactun, I did the traveling reverb experiment. Neat - its clear why its called "traveling" reverb.

Voltaidiota - I don't understand. Certainly the phase between waveforms will be shifted since there there is a 30ms delay between them, but how does that cause problems?