the key to making badass doubles is BEING ABLE TO RECORD BADASS DOUBLES. your timing, tone and pronunciation has to be damn near perfect.

@rockyourworld5374

3 жыл бұрын

No it does not. Sadly! I am joe shit average and i can do it. If the neural pathway in your brain is formed for the song. Your brain just spits it like a cd. It is shockin how machine like it is.

"Weezer-Hit04" Thats my favorite sample name ever

@recordingrevolution

6 жыл бұрын

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I love doing this to beef up chorus sections. I've found sometimes it's really nice to just use the double take for the reverb send and keep the main take dry. I got the idea from Warren Huart using snare samples for his reverb sends to avoid the real snare mic's spill getting into the verb send. You can get away with a few double take layers this way and use one to trigger a short delay and one for a reverb. This is particularly nice when the main vocal take is pitch corrected, you can leave the doubles as they were performed and get a nice polished but natural sound by blending them all.

The tripe doubling, with the doubles panned left and right sounds so much cooler than just the two tracks. Thank you for this video!

Double/triple tracking vocals is life! Do it all the time

*I'm falling in love with that tele :)*

@PlasticYabby

6 жыл бұрын

Sorta catches the eye...(sorry Graham)

@RobImagines

6 жыл бұрын

Same

Yesterday I was experimenting this triple vocal by myself, and I thought, wow it sounds so great ! Why didn't I ever see a video about this in recordingrevolution, and now he uploaded this !

I've followed you for several years Graham and you have really helped me focus on the things I did miss in my production arsenal. This is by far the best song you've made to this day! Well done! As an answer to your question, I always double. You get that nice chorus vibe when you get it right but I always try to get it in the take, not with editing.

If you have a vocalist recording for you at a different location... Always always always get a triple of every vocal line, every backup, and every harmony, so you can alternate between when you need to.

@deltavistastudio124

6 жыл бұрын

right on, sometimes you can use an edited version of another take as your double, or triple later; even if that wasn't the original intent

@ccandrew111

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, I believe this is called comping. Great solution for patching up any small mistakes

@rome8180

Жыл бұрын

Personally, I do around 10 takes of each line. Modern DAWs make picking and choosing the best phrases really easy. In Logic, for example, it stores all the takes on a single track in a comp folder. Then you can just swipe to highlight a section you want to use, and it does automatic crossfades.

Thanks Graham, I have been trying to incorporate the Foo Fighters vocal sound into my recordings, your timing is impeccable! As always your videos have been a big part of my songwriting and recording education.

I do the doubling effect in my choruses always and sometimes in my verses but I didn't think about the tripling or even hard panning the 2 takes L/R - definitely excited to put these tips to use in my music. BTW great song Graham. You've got a killer voice man!

I LOVE THIS!!! i have done this for years, kurt cobain, john lennon , as well as dave have all used this amazing effect

I use it all the time, it give more powerful performance. Usually I add chorus (fx) in the chorus and the result is amazing

ive been using the double since I was 19. I'm 30 now and I have never tried the triple. I only stumbled on your channel a few months ago and I realised how many of my own mistakes I have been practicing! I would recommend this channel 100% to anybody!

I love using this technique I learned it from one of your old videos and it one of my favorite vocal recording techniques. I use it all the time.

Great demonstration of this extremely useful technique, including the extra editing...bravo!

Holy shit, I've been searching EXACTLY for this for the last few days. My search keywords were 'Dave Grohl Vocal Mix Technique'. Thank you so much!

Excellent, Graham! Just started doing this actually. Super helpful to see the "how to"!

I've needed this video for ages.... and you've uploaded it on my birthday! bless you Graham!

@recordingrevolution

6 жыл бұрын

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Great tip! Definitely gonna experiment with this technique. Thanks Graham! BTW that track sounds awesome!

Love doing this in my vocal recording. Thanks for suggesting some more ideas! You’re the best Graham :)

Duuuuude those are so on point they sound like there's a chorus on it. Incredible!

Just finished a first take on a FooFighters cover. This answered everything I was looking for. Thanks mate. Great video.

I've always loved this technique! Great tips here, can't wait to try them out and refine a little bit. Really digging this song here too, awesome!

I tend to use one track on verses and two on choruses but I definitely want to try 3 on the next chorus that I write. Thanks again Graham for a great and informative video.

Thank you for the great info I have been using this trick for my first attempt at recording just playing around with it. It is hard to nail the end of phrases for a newbie but I really like the effect so far.

Great tip! I always do this, but I do a lot of choral and folk music so since my instrumentation is more simplistic I use vocals to add character and dynamics - I'm more of a vocalist too, so I play to my strengths XD I tend to do the triple method always if I'm going to plan to layer, and if I want to hard pan or set up a staircase of sorts for thickness, I get to about six or eight layers. Nice to see your process, as always.

I'll use the triple effect on a chorus, but I've just never cared for the way my voice sounds doubled. However, sometimes I'll sing a double that's an octave lower, and I usually double harmonies and pan them left and right.

You are a great resource for DAW help. I'm old school analog guy, just getting my feet wet in digital within last year. I do a lot of doubling or tripling and pan hard right+left pushed back with middle track out front. U da man Graham!!

I was so used to hard-pan rhythm guitars. but when i saw that on vocals... That blew me away for a second :)

Good video, I did this on a lot of my songs. I used to do it with my 4 track recordings.

Going to try this on my next recording. Great stuff and very helpful Graham!

I came here because I was searching for the Foo Fighters effect! So super cool. If I ever record my voice, I'm pretty sure I'll be tempted 😉

I’m new to recording and mixing vocals. I’ve had some experience with drums, guitar and bass but not vocals. I’ve noticed this doubling effect and when I went to actually do it, funny thing is I did it exactly the way you did with one track centered and one hard panned right and one left. Thought that was the coolest sounding. I was doing a Helmet cover of ‘Easy to Get Bored’ and he used a lot of vocal doubling. Great video.

Excellent results so far. Thank you

Excellent tutorial, thanks Graham

Great video, tips, and I love your song and vocals!

Also the vibe of the song is amazing, love it!

Yes, I use this doubling and tripling technique in my own recordings, and on instruments and vocals. I enjoyed this video Graham, thank you.

Amazing video brow! I'm using this technique on my band !! ROCK ON!

Badass tune! Love it.

Very well put together video. Thanks for your hard work!

Congrats on 400K Graham, keep up with your great work!

@recordingrevolution

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

def use this. enhances the vocals 100%. was also the trick that made all the beatles songs sound amazing

Thanks for making these. Very helpful man!

Love the intro of this song particularly! Great vid awesome content and channel!

Thanks for the tips. This is really cool.

Wow, great track Graham. Best I've ever heard from you. Love that drum sound

@recordingrevolution

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks - it’s a collab with my bud ill Factor

@TheVigilantStewards

6 жыл бұрын

Nice, I want to buy it when it's done

I started out knowing NOTHING, zero, about mixing. Then I started following Graham. Now, in this video, for the very first time he is showing a trick that I've used for years allready. Makes me feel like I've actually got somewhere. I am currently working on two albums for two separate clients, and I'm building a 40 square meter studio. And again, its ALL thanks to Sir Graham Cochrane. I am living proof that how ever bad you are at this when you start, as long as you stick with it and love what you do for your own sake, results will come. Peace from Norway.

@recordingrevolution

6 жыл бұрын

Love it

Nice tip brother, this helped me heaps. Thanks.

Great demo! Plus, this is my favorite song of yours.

@recordingrevolution

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

You're such a talented and solid performer. I'm sure your skills behind the scenes overshadow your singing/playing sometimes because of how immensely helpful they are to me and everyone else here, but I really hope you get the credit you deserve for your voice and your playing!!

I use the double but am going to experiment with the triple now. Thanks, great tips as always

First step of grunge rock: awesome vocalist who says “yeah” and “hey” frequently

I use this technique a lot in my vocal recordings.... LOVE THE FEEL!!

I double almost everything I record! Good video! Focusing on lining up the consonants is something I had not thought of.

Great video and very catchy tune!

Thank you Graham, great video and I love the song.

I recorded a 4 part vocal which was the main, doubled, a higher harmony, and a whispered part and it sounded great.

I always use it. Usually double and then higher octave take double lower in the mix. All panned to taste. Great stuff Graham!

Nice! I’ve seen Devin Townsend using this technique even on his guitar tracks. Will definitely try that. Thanks for sharing 😃

@ccandrew111

5 жыл бұрын

Mat , dev is an absolute genius when it comes to music. Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s used every trick in the book over the years

Thanks for this. On a few tracks on our record, I kept a melody double up the middle and we did harmony doubles wide left and right. It's a cool sound.

Yep, I use the double vocal when I'm recording my own band and other vocalists too. Ever since I found out about Butch Vig doing it on Nevermind! :)

Great vid! I usually triple track, and use L and R tracks as the lower, effected tracks, and the middle track as the main, strongest track. Works well in country, softer rock stuff.

great video! I loved the song!

this is great insights Graham! Thanks, Much Love!

Thank you Graham 🙏🙌 I record doubles all the time, but never thought about moving the consonants I will be trying this next time 🎶🎶🔥🔥👍👍

Awesome tutorial! Once you hear this doubled vocal effect sound, it is difficult to go back. By the way, great song!

I’ve been doing this since almost day one, because I love Foo Fighters and I love Deftones

EXCELLENT video, thanks so much!

Worth pointing out- and Graham you have emphasized this all along- is your exceptional vocal performance. Both tracks are production quality at the mic- solid, well-supported, in tune, intelligible, and phrased exactly alike. That is being prepared. Great technique, I use it all the time. I also meld it with the delay trick you taught me- tuck the second part under the lead, -7dB and use some low pass filtering to hide it in the mix. Great way to pop a lead vocal you don't want to sound doubled.

you are making it look much easier to recreate a performance than it actually is! well done

Thank you. I have stacked vocals a few times but don't get it as tight as you did. Gonna keep trying and maybe do the editing the way you did it. Thanks again!!!!!

Excellent video, as usual, thanks. You're a super-in-tune singer!

This is cool. I’m definitely going to do this.

Awesome technique that I use on pretty much every session. Would love you to make a video on buss/EQ/compression techniques for this idea. Much love!

I really would like to here this song finished. I watch a lot of your videos and this one grabbed me from the start. I bet the final mix is awesome. Please let me know where or if I can listen to it. Thanks for all the help I’ve been into recording since the early nineties when no one was out there to help or at least not that I knew of. You could have saved me a lot of time and frustration. Thanks again.

Really good song!! The idea of using that vocal effect is spot on because it reminds me of "the sky is a neighborhood" a little bit :D

Great video, bro...and yeah..I do that too quite a lot in my recordings.

Yes! Will be giving this a go!

Probably one of the best short pieces of info that will change many DIY recordings. Yes and almost exactly like you demo'd here. Lining up consonants, cutting/moving/or attentuating sibilants, plosives, etc that don't line up. and lately this: Triple with +20 LEFT -6dB Center at 0 (main) +20 RIGHT -6dB

@jeffroberts_tunes

6 жыл бұрын

3 doubled tracks, ok...tripled, there's a main one dead center at full volume, the other two at about 60% volume panned at 10 and 2 o' clock. Like in the video --this way you get the full sound but it's subtle and not an obvious double, but the full volume double is also an option--just depends on the sound you like. Then harmony vocals maybe just a tad wider soundcloud.com/jeff_roberts/jeff-roberts-what-you-do

Great video, thank you for being helpful! Much appreciated!

Thanks Graham -always great tips on the Vox - especially when your dealing with a vocalist that tend to be a bit thin-soft sonically-BTW your vocal chops are sounding excellent and the tune is catchy and has lyrical depth-thanks for your contribution to better music -Scott

@recordingrevolution

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Scott

Hey Graham, hope you're doing well. That song you demonstrated on is freaking great! Cheers!

Nice one, mate! I’m gonna start messing around with that today! 👊🏼

Sure going to use it!! but even more interested is this song! loving it..!

MAJORKOOL !!!!!! I USED THAT ON MY OLD ZOOM PS2 PALM STUDIO .. HAD NO IDEA JUST INSTINCT.....

the song sounds super good! like it :)

Yes, I use this technique quite a bit. I am a huge Beatles fan & they did a lot of double tracking of vocals..very cool effect. I have read where John Lennon said he didn't like to double track his vocal parts because he couldn't get it exactly the same as the 1st take & If you listen to early Beatles some of the vocal's were off a little but it didn't matter, it still sounded fantastic! Graham, thanks so much for your awesome videos & courses!

@rome8180

Жыл бұрын

It was actually the opposite. Lennon hated his voice, so he always wanted it doubled. He didn't like the sound when it was just a single vocal.

Great video but first and foremost a great song, Graham! I listened to it on your vid about LCR panning and loved it from scratch!

I have used the vocal doubling in my songs, it's quite effective using it to emphasize the strongest words in a verse, or to make the second verse a bit thicker so it's not the same intensity as the first. Classic trick!

Nice to see someone else still using the triple.

Digging the song. Great groove, great lesson as usual. Thanks. I do use the doubling effect, but it doesn't sound as good as yours yet.

I just recently wrote and recorded my first song, and I used doubling on parts. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out overall, amateur though I am. Thanks for the great content!

Thank you for this! Helpful as always

thanks brother love that song

I loved this video!

Definitely gotta try this out

I have an EP planned soon that I definitely want to try more of this on!

I've been writing and recording for years and I was never able to get a decent sounding vocal track...hence most of my songs are instrumental only, with a huge folder of lyrics waiting for...something. THIS is what I have been waiting for! Foo Fighters are not only one of my favorite bands, his vocal effects are what makes his sound unique, and now I finally know how he does it. Thanks SO much for putting this video out...I'm stoked to record vocals, where I've always avoided it in the past.