Vocal Recording tricks the PROS use... 

🙌🏼 That's amazing. You got this, brother!

Hey thanks, David!

Heyyyy thanks, Akim!

Thanks, Mike! Good chance Chunk was barking a hello to you when I was filming

Hey awesome, John!

Thanks, Tommy!

Love it, Terry!

Thanks, John! 2 away! Finally hitting the 5 figures

@@TheBandGuide Yeah Colin, happy for you!!

Very cool, Ray! Thank you!

Oooh I haven't heard of Pitchproof before! Could you tell me more about that?

@@TheBandGuide Hey Colin - Pitchproof is a free pitch shifting/harmonizer plugin from Aegean Music. First tune the vocal you want to harmonize. Then put the tuned voacal on a new track and apply the plugin. You can pick the harmony you want - major 3rd, 5th, octave up, down, etc. This will sound robotic. To humanize it then apply the Vocal Transformer in GarageBand and formant shift it til it sounds right. You can then layer these tracks/harmonies and mix under the main vocal and most people won’t know it’s artificial. Usually I’ll do a major 3rd and 5th up and an octave down but depends on the voice. However, if you want them louder in the mix or for commercial release then you can simply use them as a guide track to have your singer sing a brand new track to. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.

Left out a couple steps - you also need to set the key within the plugin and set the effect to 100% since you are applying on a new track

Great question! Very similar. I find that I can solo and switch through the tracks much easier and faster this way and I like seeing them all laid out visually. But ultimately either works! Whatever you prefer.

You're welcome!

Oooo this is a very interesting approach! I’ll have to try it!

Nice. I'm going to cop a couple of your ideas. Thanks for the share.

Glad it was helpful!

I actually go through them in this video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PrlCqeGO31M.html

Ah John- I love that idea! Going to have to try that 🤔

@@TheBandGuide I recently stumbled into something like your multi-mic idea. I recorded the backups on a 57 with a lot of dry compression, then doubled the lead on an AKG 414. Do you guys think that if I recorded simultaneously into both mics with different channel settings on a mixing console then sent it out as a single source to my interface, that might work?

Great point- if you are closer or further from the mic, it can definitely change the tonality of the recording. It would definitely work the same in iPad! I haven't used the iOS version, so I'm not sure the exact limitations- but as long as it allows you to do a "stereo" merge, it will sound the same

Great question, Tim! So yes- once I'm totally done and happy with a part sometimes I'll "Join" all the tracks together. But actually in this case- when you're seeing it at the end there is after I've done some subtle vocal tuning on it. And once I finish vocal tuning I solo the vocal track and export it out and then drop that new audio in so that I can save the CPU from having an active tuning plugin at all times (a total CPU hog).

@@TheBandGuide Nice one Colin. You've probably demoed the process you've just described so can you send me a link....or if not include it in your list of things to do

😂 glad someone caught this!

Sounds like you just need to click “A” on your keyboard, which will bring up automation, then you can crank the vocals up in the verse to your desire. Just click the line that comes up twice on either side of the verse. This allows you to then grab and drag that line up in the verse which turns up the total volume of that track. I hope this helped!