#How to double track vocals how to#

I love doubling and do it almost all the time. I was so upset when i saw people accusing phoenix of lip syncing. There are tutorials on double-tracking in our home recording course, The Newbies Guide To Audio Recording Awesomeness.

#How to double track vocals how to#

And if you need to thicken up the sound of a lead vocal, you know how to do it. So if you didn't know what double-tracking sounded like, now you do. It's just that it is augmented by a recorded version as well.Д®ither way, I have no problem with it at all as long as the performer is actually performing live.

With double-tracking, youВ actuallyВ hear the live vocal as the singer sings. However, as you can see in the picture above, Thomas had a bank of effect pedals that he is stepping on, which I strongly suspect were for chorusing and/or double-tracking.Д«ut even if he did have a pre-recorded version to sing along with,В I need to point out that this is NOT the same thing as lip-syncing, where the recording is all the audience hears while the singer fakes the actual singing. But there may have also been an actual recorded version of the lead vocal coming over the PA that Thomas Mars sang along with to create the effect. It could have been the automated effect being used. And I most definitely heard it from Thomas Mars last night. That sound is very distinctive once you know what to listen for. The reason for even doing the double-tracking thing is to create a nice, thick sort of chorus-y sound on the voice. See my article What The Beatles Can Teach Us About Mixing Music for more on this. The Beatles actually started with the singing-the-part-twice method, then moved to an automated way to do it ( artificial double tracking - ADT), since John Lennon did not like singing his part twice, or so the story goes. Or you can do itВ electronicallyВ with an effect box. You can either have the lead singer actually sing the part twice, which is actually more common these days when recording (obviously impossible live, at least without some creative vocal surgery )). There are two primary ways to get the sound of a double-tracked vocal.

But when performing live, it's much less common.

You probably never heard a Beatles song without it. Did you notice the sound of the lead vocalist, Thomas Mars, on Saturday Night Live (April 6th, 2013)? That is the sound of double-tracking, or since it was a live performance, it would just be called 'vocal doubling.'Дouble-tracking a lead vocal is a really common technique used mostly in recording.