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The Abbey Road double-track trick

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The Abbey Road double-track trick

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- [Instructor] John Lennon loved the sound of vocal doubling but hated the process of actually doing it. So the clever boffins at Abbey Road Studios designed automatic double tracking. Here's a way to simulate that effect without having to resort to hauling around an exotic tape machine. So first of all, listen to the track, concentrate on the vocal. (jazzy music) Sounds good, but let's say we would like the vocal to be doubled, and of course, we can't do it after the fact but we can simulate how to do that, and we can simulate the ADT, the automatic double tracking that Abbey Road came up with. And the way we're going to do that is we're going to first insert a delay across the vocal. It doesn't matter what the delay is in terms of short, medium or long. We're going to set it to somewhere around 75 milliseconds to start, it doesn't really matter. And if it has modulation, we're going to set the modulation somewhere around 15, 16%, and a rate of one hertz, between one and two. And…

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