From the course: Mixing a Hip-Hop and R&B Song in Pro Tools

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Processing the background vocals

Processing the background vocals - Pro Tools Tutorial

From the course: Mixing a Hip-Hop and R&B Song in Pro Tools

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Processing the background vocals

All right, now that I have my main chorus vocal sound I want to start working on my background vocals or my harmonies and these go right along with the leads. So they're fairly important in terms of the overall chorus sound. Now I want to point out that the harmonies actually build over the course of the song. So where I actually want to work with these is starting in the second chorus. So as they can see here I've got some of the harmonies that come in here. I've got two harmonies that come in the first chorus, but in the second chorus and the third chorus is where I have my full harmony or background vocals stack. So I'm going to work with them here in the second chorus so that I'm working with all of the vocals. Now I'll start by sub-mixing these into an aux track so that I can group process and control their levels. So we'll go to a New Track, BGVox, and I will solo safe that so that I have a nice common control, and I can solo up these vocals and take a listen. Start that from…

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