A GOOD VOCAL DOUBLER

Special Interest Groups Audio Processing
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Hi there , now officially in the market for a GOOD Vocal Doubler , One I can buy and it’s mine for good ,

as you know sometimes with freeware if the site ever deletes and you uninstall things , Its gone for good.

I been eying the REEL ADT Plugin , Every WAVE PLUGIN works great with AUDACITY.

I just want to know if I am thinking of the correct thing ?

I want that doubling effect you would hear in theses youtube examples below , Meaning I am too lazy and impatience to align 2 vocal tracks together.

One example of what I am looking can be heard at the 3:05 mark of Nirvana’s On A Plain.

https://youtu.be/L7-QxO4KmGU?t=180

NOW THE BEST IS THIS ,

This Vocal Track of SILVERCHAIR TOMORROW is the best example especially at the 1:30 MARK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll-hY2Ul28o

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That “effect” sounds like “manual” doubling: Record the same person multiple times as they sing in parallel harmony with themselves.

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i.e. https://youtu.be/Ll-hY2Ul28o?t=92

That’s actual double-tracking: the melody is not exactly the same in the two parts.

The free version of Grallion2 plugin does an interesting doubling effect if you mix the pitch-corrected version with the original. (It’s not going to re-write the melody though).

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Automatic Double Tracking is a special effect that usually sounds different from true double tracking. The same with a chorus effect… It doesn’t sound like a real chorus. That doesn’t mean one is better than the other. They are just different.

Meaning I am too lazy and impatience to align 2 vocal tracks together.

Normally multiple vocal tracks are recorded while the singer listens to a backing-track in headphones (or the drummer may be listening to a click-track) so all takes have the same timing. And then if you double-track the little imperfections add to the effect.

There is a plug-in called [u]VocALign[/u]. I’ve never tried it. (It looks like it’s not compatible with Audacity.)

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OK Awesome , I knew it was all real doubling for SILVERCHAIR Haha.

So yeah I am taking a shot at the REEL ADT from Abbey Road Waves , They even mentation how Lennon was too lazy to do real doubles :laughing:

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UPDATE ,

I went and bought the REEL ADT Abbey Road ,

OMG , this is doing the trick , So far every real VST Plugin I spent money on , They all managed to have a PRESET that I personally rolled with and did not do a single resetting customizing :blush: ,

I AM CAPTAIN CRUISE CONTROL :laughing:

C4 Vocal and Music Compressor
REEL ADT Abbey Road For Voice Dubbing
GREG Wells Voice Centric , for that Reverb like touch mainly on the vocals ,
REDD EQ Abbey Road for Vocals and Music ,

I always used some type of FREE REVERB for the Music but I think I honestly could disown that and use the GREGG WELLS on that too. Why I am not doing that who knows :laughing:

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I’d like to try the Waves ADT in Audacity, but having trouble installing it, and have been looking for instructions online, without success… Any quick tips? Thanks.

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A lot of WAVES plug-ins don’t work in Audacity.
They publish a list of supported host programs here: https://www.waves.com/support/tech-specs/supported-hosts