MTS Double Tracked Vocals: Addicted to Love
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 4:01 pm
ATL MIx 3 by Drdrdaddeo https://soundcloud.com/drdrdaddeo/atl-mix-3
I figured out a very cool way to use MTS for vocal double tracking. I did "Addicted to Love" on MTS for ipad (ipad Pro, Presonus AudioBox iTwo, Apogee MiC, MTS with Pro Extension, 24 bit, 48hz). Horns were played by MIDI using AudioBus and SampleTank. Organ was Drawboard Organ from MTS, Drums were from EZ Drummer (except click track snare used from MTS), guitar was Fender Stratocaster, Bass was Godin. After ten stereo music tracks were recorded, I started laying down multiple repeat mono tracks of my same lead vocals using only a little master compression and eq on each track. Then I created two separate blank vocal tracks for final double tracking the lead vocal. Going through each of the separate lead vocal tracks, I copy and pasted the two best vocal segments from the multiple takes onto the blank double tracks, one panned slightly left and the other slightly right, syncing them together as best as possible. When only one lead vocal segment was acceptable amongst all the draft tracks, I copied that segment and pasted it into each of the two final double tracks, moving one track a few milliseconds ahead of the click beat, and the other a few milliseconds behind the click beat. The resultant double track vocals had true double track segments as well as "manufactured" double track segments both of which which came out pretty well for a guy who is othetwise a pretty mediocre lead vocalist. To really hear the effect, listen to the last three words of the lead vocal in which the double tracking is purposefully reduced to unison stereo. Use of such double tracking obviated my need for reverb or other vocal effects to beef-up my pretty weak voice. This trick allowed me to do a decent job on the lead vocals. I am now waiting for my musical associate to record the high vocal harmony line which I will add in the final post-production MTS mixdown.
Drdrdaddeo
I figured out a very cool way to use MTS for vocal double tracking. I did "Addicted to Love" on MTS for ipad (ipad Pro, Presonus AudioBox iTwo, Apogee MiC, MTS with Pro Extension, 24 bit, 48hz). Horns were played by MIDI using AudioBus and SampleTank. Organ was Drawboard Organ from MTS, Drums were from EZ Drummer (except click track snare used from MTS), guitar was Fender Stratocaster, Bass was Godin. After ten stereo music tracks were recorded, I started laying down multiple repeat mono tracks of my same lead vocals using only a little master compression and eq on each track. Then I created two separate blank vocal tracks for final double tracking the lead vocal. Going through each of the separate lead vocal tracks, I copy and pasted the two best vocal segments from the multiple takes onto the blank double tracks, one panned slightly left and the other slightly right, syncing them together as best as possible. When only one lead vocal segment was acceptable amongst all the draft tracks, I copied that segment and pasted it into each of the two final double tracks, moving one track a few milliseconds ahead of the click beat, and the other a few milliseconds behind the click beat. The resultant double track vocals had true double track segments as well as "manufactured" double track segments both of which which came out pretty well for a guy who is othetwise a pretty mediocre lead vocalist. To really hear the effect, listen to the last three words of the lead vocal in which the double tracking is purposefully reduced to unison stereo. Use of such double tracking obviated my need for reverb or other vocal effects to beef-up my pretty weak voice. This trick allowed me to do a decent job on the lead vocals. I am now waiting for my musical associate to record the high vocal harmony line which I will add in the final post-production MTS mixdown.
Drdrdaddeo