One of the fastest ways to make your vocals or guitars sound big in your mix is to double them. It’s so classic that I included it as one of my 8 tips to make better recordings now. And by double, I mean you actually record a second pass of the same thing, pan them left and right, and let your ears bask in the bliss of doubling. But what do you do if you forgot to record a doubled part and the guitar player or singer has left for the day? You create an instant double people! And here is how…
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Really interesting, I sometimes clone a track and make the clone start a few milliseconds late. It gives a bit of natural chorus effect also.
Anyways, great work, regards
Paul
Paul, thanks for the comment. Yep I’ve done that before!
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As always great tutorial.
I have a question about phase issues – sometimes when you play doubled parts in mono it sounds thin. How to deal with this problem?
Pawel, with a legitimate double (even the ones we do in this video) you won’t have phase issues. It is simply a second performance at the same time. It’s when you have a digital copy of the exact same thing and move it slightly that you can run into phase issues.