KVR Audio

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:09 pm

Emjay - In Your Arms (Official Video): http://youtu.be/HIr1NolcgUU (nsfw)

@1:40 you can hear it clearly. It's like a subtle chorus/flange + odd room verb and then an artificial? harmony layered with it a few seconds later. Not sure exactly what it is though or more importantly, how to recreate it.

ATN69 · Post by **ATN69** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:24 pm

I am not sure but it seems like they did layers of the lead vocal. My guess is that they sing the lead vocal 2 times and the second time they alter the pitch slightly. That is an old trick that ABBA came up with already in the 70ths. If you layer the vocals you will get a sort of chorus effect. If you add some reverb and compression to that you will get a similar vocal sound as in the video.

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Sat Oct 17, 2015 3:28 pm

Oh, yes I think you're correct. Like on the word "love" there seems to be maybe two recordings. I think I've heard this technique in more modern music like "mother we share" Chvrches too:

CHVRCHES - The Mother We Share: http://youtu.be/_mTRvJ9fugM

Around 1:40. Accented especially on "mother" and "easily".

Maybe I'm just hearing things. Idk... Lol

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Thu Nov 12, 2015 8:25 pm

Bump.

The 90s version of Summer in the streets has the same effect

simon.a.billington · Post by **simon.a.billington** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:00 pm

You could demo this new little beastie.
http://www.waves.com/plugins/greg-wells-voicecentric#

I've seen a few demos on YouTube, I must admit I am quite impressed. I'm yet to hear it on male vocals yet though.

Roman Empire · Post by **Roman Empire** » Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:28 pm

ATN69 wrote:I am not sure but it seems like they did layers of the lead vocal. My guess is that they sing the lead vocal 2 times and the second time they alter the pitch slightly. That is an old trick that ABBA came up with already in the 70ths. If you layer the vocals you will get a sort of chorus effect. If you add some reverb and compression to that you will get a similar vocal sound as in the video.

Hmm, can´t listen to the clip now, but what you´re describing here is double tracking right? I think that´s something much older than ABBA - ADT was already in place way before that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tracking

Best Regards

Roman Empire

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Tue Dec 22, 2015 11:54 pm

Ah yes, and it is a delay, reverb and doubler

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 1:12 am

ATN69 wrote:I am not sure but it seems like they did layers of the lead vocal. My guess is that they sing the lead vocal 2 times and the second time they alter the pitch slightly. That is an old trick that ABBA came up with already in the 70ths. If you layer the vocals you will get a sort of chorus effect. If you add some reverb and compression to that you will get a similar vocal sound as in the video.

It's just a copy of the original but with a tiny tiny nudge in pitch. That's it!

simon.a.billington · Post by **simon.a.billington** » Fri Jul 01, 2016 6:29 am

If I recall correctly ABBA did actually use both doubling and ADT techniques. ADT having been invented before their time at Abbey Road.

Queen also had an approach where everyone sung the same harmony lines and they were tracked together.

I did hear Freddy was hard to double-track because he was so on point with his pitch it would cause phasing issues.

Oh speaking of ADT I see its on sale...
http://www.waves.com/plugins/reel-adt

Damn. Not long left.

Help identifying effect chain on female vocal