[ddots-l] Wanna pick your brains
- From: "Mike Tyo" <mtyo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "ddots-l" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:37:21 -0400
Hi List,
I'd like to get some feedback on what people are doing when it comes to
creating chorused vocals; more specifically - using a good multi-voice chorus
effect vs manually overdubbing vocal parts. I'm not necessarily looking for
absolution on this as I realize that it's going to boil down to personal
preference.
Obviously it takes far less time to simply patch a chorus effect into a bus and
send your vocal tracks to it. Here's the thing; though I don't mind using
chorus effects, I find that to me, they sound a bit sterile. This is not to put
them down by any means; it's just that when I hear production from the big boys
out there, Vocals don't sound like they've been put through your typical
chorusing effect. It's more like they've taken the time to overdub vocals, or
they're using one hell of a good processor that does a great job of simulating
multiple voices on a part.
I've been spending a lot of time going through the chorus plugs in Sonar
tweaking them to see if I can come up with something that I like, but I'm still
looking. Sure - I could use the VVocal plug to create multiple tracks of unison
vocals that are detuned from one another to simulate overdubbing, but because
of the limitations on how much data that we can process in the VVocal Editor at
a time, I might as well manually record the tracks as it would take less time
overall.
I understand that there are some hardware units that do some pretty good
simulations, but there's that accessibility issue again - not to mention the
cost of some of these devices. Again, I'm not looking for absolutes here - just
feedback on what people are doing. Is that old fashion way still winning out
over the chorus effects and hardware processors? Perhaps there's stuff out
there that I'm not aware of, hence my inquiry here. What do ya think?
Cheers!
Mike
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