[audacity4blind] Re: doubling voices

  • From: Rich De Steno <ironrock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: audacity4blind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 07:31:38 -0500

You cannot exactly simulate two separate performances of the singing, but you can offset a second copy of the original vocal. After you make the copy, select the copy and make sure that the original vocal track and all other tracks are not selected. Press control F6 and tab over until you get to the select spin boxes. Right arrow over to milliseconds and increase the value by ten or twenty milliseconds. Press F6 twice to get back to the tracks window. Then press alt-t followed by a and c to align the second voice track with the time you just set. This produces a fuller singing sound. You can vary the times you set in the spin box. However, this is not the same sound as if you sang over yourself in a new track. That produces a different effect. You also might consider putting reverb on the second vocal track above but not on the first. This produces the reverb sound without that distant sound that reverb brings.


Rich De Steno

On 2/14/2014 9:28 PM, Brad Erhardt wrote:
Has anyone discovered how to edit sounds so that you get a doubled voice like they used to do in old music. They used to have a singer record themselves and then sing back to the recording while recording again. here is a link to the lady who first made this famous, Patty Page.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHRpbiG_ruk

I have two tracks open, both with the same song clip. When you play them simultaneously they sound no different. I think the key might be introducing a small gap by perhaps inserting silence at the beginning of the second track. I have tried this though and I haven't yet been successful.

If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Thanks,
Brad Erhardt
brad.erhardt@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:brad.erhardt@xxxxxxxxx>




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