Message 6/12
Date: 05-Jun-03 @ 10:48 AM -
RE: Creating vocal hamonies with Cubase
To "man called clay"
I don't understand your point, "I think therein is the problem".
Litterly every commercial producer uses this techinique i.e Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Jermaine Dupri, Timberland, Heartless Crew etc etc.
I have found out what to do it now anyway and it has to be done manually for the proper effect. You record the main vocal at the root note of the song. This is the loudest layer and is send down the middle of the mix.
You then record two harmonies pitched a fifth above the root note and then pan each one mid left and right. These layers should be much lower in volume than the root vocal so they just provide warmth and colouration in pitch and tone.
Then for added spice you add another layer an octave higher than the root note and keep it dead centre and just eq it into the whole stack.
Then use Auto Align in Pro Tools to sync them all up to create one huge, fat, lush, sweeping vocal harmony.