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Using modulation effects to enhance vocals

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Using modulation effects to enhance vocals

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- [Instructor] When we think of delay, we think of an audible echo effect but when you speed up the delay to the point where you no longer hear individual repeats and alter the pitch of those repeats, you enter a whole new class of effects processing. We call these modulation effects. Here, we'll look at three flavors of modulation. Phaser, Flanger and Chorus. All of which add some different tonality to our vocal sound. The first two, Flanger and Phaser, are very similar in how they work. With both effects, what we hear is a network of delays that change the repeat time values by very small amounts and those amounts vary over time and then they're blended back with the original dry signal. The difference technically between the two has to do with something called an all pass filter which a Phaser uses. It results in a different sonic texture than the Flanger which does not go through the all pass filter. Enough about how they work. The differences between Phaser and Flanger are better…

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