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Inspector #20

Inspector #20

Ambassador of Tone
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This was a fun project. The work order requested a complete vocal performance track for 6th Avenue Heartache by The Wallflowers. I was asked to sing the lead 'reference vocal' several tracks of back up vocals.

For this project, we experimented with me singing two lead vocal tracks - back to back - which gives a much fuller sound.

Its tricky business because you have to sing each part exactly the same to make it sound right, but when its right, it really sounds good...

Special thanks to drum meister Ffej Rednil and keyboardist extraordinaire Max Cortez who also contributed to backing vocals...

Listen to 6th Avenue Heartache Demo by Von Herndon on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.com/id%3Drobert-h-herndon%252F6th-avenue-heartache-demo%252Fs-N9sj9D301sY%3Bsecret_token%3Ds-N9sj9D301sY%3Btrack_id%3D847357906
 
Sounds good Robert, I like the layered vocals.

What happens if a person rigs a way to sing into 2 separate mics, 2 separate tracks, but only have to sing it once, I wonder? I've thought about this with tracking guitar solos too...the notion of double tracking scares me because like you say, you've gotta do it exactly the same way....but then I figure you'd probably also have to figure out how to isolate each mic....

I dunno I just play guitar. I don't know anything about how things are done in a real studio lol
 
mcblink said:
Sounds good Robert, I like the layered vocals.

What happens if a person rigs a way to sing into 2 separate mics, 2 separate tracks, but only have to sing it once, I wonder? I've thought about this with tracking guitar solos too...the notion of double tracking scares me because like you say, you've gotta do it exactly the same way....but then I figure you'd probably also have to figure out how to isolate each mic....

I dunno I just play guitar. I don't know anything about how things are done in a real studio lol
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Good point...but it's the extremely subtle differences - that a human voice cannot avoid - that makes the tracks stand out to the ear...an exact duplicate track would not have the same fullness.
 
Yeah that makes sense. Not sure why that didn't occur to me. Probably because I'm lazy. Many of my leads have a basic sort of structural idea, but much of it's improvised on the spot. For me to double track a solo would require work :LOL:

Not that I'm opposed to putting in the time, but it got me wondering if there's a way to achieve the same desired effect with half the effort.
 
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