Yes, but only in the Chorus and always panned. But I've never thought of having them all in the center. Will try this next time! Thanks for an awesome video :)
@EricAmesmusic3 жыл бұрын
panning them is definitely a good sound as well! you can always try stacking the melody parts in the center and panning your doubled harmonies.
@ArturoRodz Жыл бұрын
I do!
@GreggOliverBassАй бұрын
I do
@kevddiaz3 жыл бұрын
Hey man, don’t apologize for promoting your band!! Get your stuff out there, with pride! it was a smooth way of mentioning your own music
@sleepinggiant33311 ай бұрын
Agreed. I wanted to hear more of it more so than other bands haha
@DutchNovak11 ай бұрын
Great stuff men, you’re good at articulating and using examples
@kclife77343 жыл бұрын
Excellent video, and great conclusion! Thank you for that! Very cool. I'll looking forward to watching more of your videos
@pesmuz55215 күн бұрын
Cool job dude!
@nathanimboden3 жыл бұрын
Love this video bro. I'm a professional musician trying to improve my studio production skills so this was a really useful video for me.
@PhilipMurrayDesign5 ай бұрын
Thanks Eric - really great advice
@ggmusic34832 жыл бұрын
thank you so much, Eric that was so informative and helpful!
@johntractor97992 жыл бұрын
I did a recording where i would sing the lead vocal. Then on another track, i sang the harmony for each chorus, (2 choruses in the song). I wanted to add another harmony (to make a 3 part harmony) for each chorus, but being lazy i tried copying that harmony track that i previously recorded and changed the pitch. It didn't sound good at all - strangely enough it just sounded like a pitch altered vocal track, (which it was). So i then on the 3rd harmony track, i cut the 2nd chorus vocals and pasted them to the 1st chorus, (and vice versa). This was much better, the differences when i sang each chorus really added to the sound when i switched them.
@davidarsenault72143 жыл бұрын
dude, great video. Subscribed (found you via your post on reddit_)
@EricAmesmusic3 жыл бұрын
thank you! and thanks for subscribing, I appreciate it! more videos to come 🤘
@alexalexanderman12382 ай бұрын
thanks for the vid. just wondering if you would use this technique instead of or in harmony with vocal thickening which is something different of course? thanks
@Magpie16music2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
@Filou796 Жыл бұрын
Couldn’t have explained it better, thanks man🫶🏻
@peterm132 жыл бұрын
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@Hast4656Ай бұрын
I love how people in comments say that singers who are using pitch correction are imposters, and most likely after that turn on their favorite track containing - with no doubt - pitch corrected vocals. Guys, almost EVERYTHING you listen to has pitch corrected vocals, if it wasn’t recorded before 2000s
@TawdryTempest3 жыл бұрын
Does the vocalist listen to the first track (in the headphones) while recording the second? In this example there is only one vocalist.
@EricAmesmusic3 жыл бұрын
great question! in my experience, no, because it gets confusing trying to figure out which voice is coming out of your mouth and which voice is being played back haha. it can throw you off pitch super easily. if you're recording at home or in the control room, you can keep your eye on the waveforms of the main vocal track to see how long to hold out certain words etc.
@darrylchambers7801 Жыл бұрын
Diana Ross doubled the lead vocal on "You keep me hangin on "
@mrfinlay75163 жыл бұрын
Very informative video!
@mr.e8432 Жыл бұрын
My buddy sings in to an sm57 and he sounds great. I double track, triple track and my voice still sounds like ass. You really didn’t mention panning much. Some guys will double track right down the middle, others will take the second track and run it through something like Soundtoys Alter Boy to Split it hard left and right. Also a small cut around 2-4khz on the double can help it blend in better with the main track.
@jasonbodden881611 ай бұрын
Well, I don't know what you sound like but for any layering to sound good you first have to have a good vocal take to work with, then your layered vocals have to be done well also.
@mr.e843211 ай бұрын
@jasonbodden8816 yeah, if I could actually sing that would help.👍
@harveyrutterford70612 жыл бұрын
Should u pan them at all? Like one left and one right?
@carriesolomonmusic7 ай бұрын
Is there not a 3rd vocal under the Kurt Cobain and Dave Grohl lead examples, singing an octave down also? I’ve thought about doing that but am a woman with a. High voice 😂 Anyway this vid was super helpful, thank you. I’ve been unsure whether to double my lead all the way through or just choruses/big parts and now I know it’s whatever I want to do😝 Helpful to have it broken down though
@egorsazanovich Жыл бұрын
Hey hey! "Smells like Teen Spirit" was recorded in three takes, so no intentional double tracks were recorded. But after the recording session, sound engineers decided to make it "thicker", so as far as I remember these parts were not even double-tracked, but triple-tracked
@thischannelisdeleted Жыл бұрын
This guy thinks pitch correction should be normalized, I can’t respect him.
@jasonbodden881611 ай бұрын
@@thischannelisdeleted Pretty much every studio uses it for almost every singer. To what degree is totally up to you. You don't need to pitch correct to super perfect that it sounds robotic but slagging the guy for pitch correction is just stupid.
@tenea24 Жыл бұрын
What if I duplicated a complete track and hard panned each of them?
@EricAmesmusic Жыл бұрын
they’ll cancel each other out and it will just sound centered in the mix
@coltercresse2783 Жыл бұрын
What do you use for pitch correction?
@scott75212 жыл бұрын
Two questions Eric: Would you recommend using two different mics to achieve this? I know you can just use the same mic twice but would you get an even better sound if you used two different ones? 2nd: do you recommend hard panning the vocals? Love to hear your thoughts.
@EricAmesmusic2 жыл бұрын
it all depends! I use the same mic because the recordings match up more closely and that's what I'm usually going for. if you hard pan the vocals, you'll get a different effect but one that's still pretty neat. I would recommend just trying stuff and see what you like the best.
@kayve2142 жыл бұрын
How do I pan the double tracks?
@j0kshe Жыл бұрын
can you do it throughout the whole track?
@boonyco2 жыл бұрын
Maybe I’m missing it but where is the blog and/or video about sends?
@EricAmesmusic2 жыл бұрын
it's the video after this one chronologically
@DrunkDuckXD2 жыл бұрын
So generally, when a harmony section come in, is that double tracked also? Having 4 vocal tracks?
@savagechallenge21711 ай бұрын
No actually that is rarely the case any harmony part in a song that I can think of is a single track
@shawnamartin6118Ай бұрын
Regarding your Beatles example: To me it's clearly Paul doubling the track. John, George and Paul have all very distinctive voices and I don't hear John here. They did a lot of unisono parts though and tight harmonies.
@dylanj8676 Жыл бұрын
I find fake double tracking can make cheap mics sound a lot better. Even with limited or no processing somehow mics without as much clarity and low end sound better with two of the same recording layered on different tracks. I don't know why this works, it just sounds fuller.
@zohremaghsoodi97613 жыл бұрын
That was a cool video. I had no idea what double track meant, so it was all very interesting to me.
@lucasbowman71883 жыл бұрын
Helpful informative video!
@EricAmesmusic3 жыл бұрын
i’m glad it was useful for you!
@i55a93 жыл бұрын
If I record twice should I pan one left and one right?
@jSattJamboree2 жыл бұрын
I came here to ask the same thing.
@Hello-pl2qe3 жыл бұрын
Nice subject and video man. Are pornstaches back in?
@EricAmesmusic3 жыл бұрын
🥸
@dagmerrie4 ай бұрын
4 examples and zero 80's music where it got really popular to take it to it's limits. For example The Cure or Siouxsie and The Banshees should've been there.
@kylekazlaw9105 Жыл бұрын
Lost me on "Everyone uses pitch correction". Thats why todays music has shit for integrity in relation to yesterdays... Modern recording favors technology over performance, talent and ability. I'd rather be out of pitch slightly and deliver a great performance... Greatness is not in perfection. It's in delivery. Nuff Said...
@thischannelisdeleted Жыл бұрын
NO, you’re WRONG. Only imposter musicians use auto tune.
@FreeKeenan5 ай бұрын
There's way too much talking and explaining between samples.
@FreeKeenan5 ай бұрын
Too much talking and not enough straight to the point on the matter. So what's the secret tunings?
@longsnapper53812 жыл бұрын
Adele doesn't use pitch correction.
@happymum86122 жыл бұрын
Yes she does lol.
@longsnapper53812 жыл бұрын
@@happymum8612 Sorry, she is often pitchy and it works beautifully for her. Don't comment on things you know nothing about.
@simonetodd34902 жыл бұрын
Maybe she doesn’t but the person who engineers her session does lol
@longsnapper53812 жыл бұрын
@@simonetodd3490 For people like you ,sure.....
@thischannelisdeleted Жыл бұрын
I can’t respect any musicians that uses pitch correction, I’m sorry (not sorry). This is why music is dead nowadays. Authentic artistry is dead in this age. It’s very sad.