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Modulating the vocals

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Modulating the vocals

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Modulation effects are often used on vocals to make them sound thicker and widen them out in the stereo field. Let me show you how that's done. The first thing we'll do is listen to a chorus on the vocal. First of all let's listen to the vocal by itself. (Music playing) Now we already have a chorus patched in. It's in Bypass. Let's take it out of Bypass to have a listen of what it'll do. (Music playing) Now let's listen to the track. (Music playing) Now there is couple of problems when using this. The first is that if we're not careful sometimes we could actually cause some tuning problems with some other instruments or vocals. So that's usually why we take the mix way back and we just add a touch of it. The other thing is it sort of sounds artificial and it doesn't sound as in your face as we want the lead vocal to sound. Now on the other hand sometimes if we have a really pitchy lead vocal, sometimes adding a chorus could actually help a little bit, because suddenly you won't hear…

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