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Tips On Adding Effects To Your Vocal Tracks Part
II Vocal
effects can add a lot of life and movement to a
vocal track. Here are some ideas to get you
started:
Use
a high pass filter on a few key words within a
vocal phrase and then add a small amount of delay
or run it through an auto-panner to add a little
animation.
Set
up a square wave LFO to modulate a tremolo effect
and chop up a vocal with long sustaining notes. You
can also run the vocal through a DJ
transformer.
If
you can get away with it, add a very small amount
of distortion to some key words or phrases, or (and
I've heard this done many times) add a small amount
distortion to the vocal track just during the
chorus. This can add a lot of energy to the chorus
without being overly noticeable.
Use
different reverb amounts for different parts of the
verse and/or chorus.
To
animate a reverb, use the same mono reverb patch on
a multi-effects unit twice, and slightly alter the
values for one or both of the reverbs. Then pan
their returns; one just inside the left, and the
other just inside the right.
Grab
a vocal phrase or word, run it through a resonant
low-pass filter, and slowly modulate the filter
cutoff to create an energetic build up. To break up
the monotony of this overused effect, send the
output of the filter to a delay or a whacked out
phasor.
Loop
a sustaining note, run it wet through a reverb, and
then run the output of the reverb into a flanger.
You can even use a filter before the
reverb.
Use
a multi-band compressor to compress a certain
frequency of the vocal and then send the output of
the compressor to just about anything. Contact:
Outside Systems Outside
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