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Creating automatic double tracking

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Creating automatic double tracking

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- Everyone knows the sound of automatic double tracking, or ADT. Listen to the Beatles records from Revolver on, and a lot of times you'll hear it being used. Like on the guitar solo for While My Guitar Gently Weeps, or a lot of John Lennon's vocal takes, because apparently he made them create this because he didn't like sitting and doubling his vocals. The original version as invented at Abbey Road Studios by Ken Townsend, used two tape decks in order to create a variable delay that could proceed and follow the original signal. Now listen to that again, proceed and follow the original signal, it's not simply a tape delay that comes after the vocal, like we're familiar with with slapback and all kinds of tape effects, this is one that's moving back and forth in time, ahead of and after the vocal. That is why it sounds really cool. Now, I'm gonna show you a way to create this effect using a DAW and plugins, bear with me, it takes a little bit of thinking to get here, but it's going to…

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