From the course: Mixing a Hip-Hop and R&B Song in Pro Tools
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Processing the background vocals - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Mixing a Hip-Hop and R&B Song in Pro Tools
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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Building the verse lead-vocal sound12m 59s
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Setting up the vocal FX returns13m 24s
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Adding the rap stabs5m 21s
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Processing the hook lead vocals12m 39s
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Processing the background vocals7m 14s
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Processing the FX vocals6m 4s
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Creating a unique vocal sound for the intro and the bridge6m 27s
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Working in the ad lib vocals9m 23s
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