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Reverse delay vocal effects - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Music Production Secrets
Reverse delay vocal effects
- [Voiceover] Sometimes we want a crazy vocal effect to start a chorus or just shift the song into a different part like a bridge or such. Reverse delays are not commonly used, but once you hear this, you'll recognize this effect from some classic rock songs. So what I'm looking for here is, right at the top of the chorus, there's just one little phrase. And here it is. ♫ Oh oh ♫ So where she goes "Oh oh", we're going to grab that and copy this, copy the "Oh oh". We're going to paste it at the end of the song. You've got to work over here to stay out of the way of the song, so to speak. ♫ Oh oh ♫ There we go. So we want to reverse this sound, so the first thing we do is open up Reverse Plug-in and render it and now we'll hear it. ♫ Oh oh ♫ The notes go in a different order, don't they? So now, what we want to do is create a delayed version of that little phrase. We're trying to basically make an echo that rises in to the top of the chorus. So I've got an echo plug-in already set up…