From the course: Music Production Secrets
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Using delay to hide shaky pitch - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Music Production Secrets
Using delay to hide shaky pitch
- When singers are holding a long note in a certain part of a song, it's common for pitch to waver a little bit. It's not the easiest part of singing to hold something long with a lot of power. We've got an example here. (woman singing) You hear a little bit of waver on some of the longer parts of the note there. What I'm going to show you is a way to kind of mask that in a really cool and creative fashion. We're going to duplicate the raw vocal track, make a copy of it. Now what I'm going to do, mute the original vocal and we're going to listen for the parts where we want to add some echo. What we're going to do with the echo is kind of like doubling, to create something that kind of layers over itself. We take the notes where it's good, and those kind of cascade over the part that needs a little pitch correction. Here we go, we're going to listen to it again. (woman singing) So the top of that is great. I'm going to take that breath off. You can hear this, (sound of breath) and we…
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