And it sounds almost angelic because
of the processing that we have on these vocals, the reverb, the delay, the
spreading, the panning that we've done. Gives me chills. What's up everybody. IAMLXGEND and today we're going
to be widening our vocals. I'll be going over a bit of recording
your own vocals, how to lay them out in your song and which plugins you
can use to get a nice professional sound in your finished product. Let's dive in. So here's a track I'm working on with
Peggy and Isabelle from LANDR and I've gone ahead and recorded my own vocals
with the Shure PGA 2 7 microphone to really put this thing through its paces
and also add my own flair to the song. I'l show you kind of what
we were working with here. So as you can see, we have some
really clean and natural sounding vocals coming from the microphone,
which is going to be one of the most important things when processing audio. You want to have good source audio because
the better your source audio, the better sounding your vocal processing will be. So widening the vocals is a technique
that is used to add depth to vocals in your song, which is a really great
way to emphasize a certain part of a song and differentiate it from
something like a verse, to a chorus. It builds up the song a little bit more. Now there are different
ways to widen vocals. In some cases you can even just take
a vocal, copy it and paste it here. Like for instance, this would be a pasted
vocal, and then we just take an auto tuning or pitch correction plugin, and
then tune our vocals down an octave. One way that I like to do it is
to actually record, physically, the low end and the high end. But I like to stack my vocals in fours. I went ahead and I stacked that high
note, that's being sung here four times and I panned my vocals a hundred
percent to the left, a hundred percent to the right then 50% to the left,
which would be 30 and 50% to the right. That way, we're having these
vocals come from all angles. It's kind of like you're creating
your own surround sound box. The vocals are going to
sound much more full. I stack the exact same notes that is
being sung here at the exact same way. There are no variations, but you
have to record the vocals four times. You can't just copy and paste. It will not have the same effect. Let's listen to it. It sounds much more umph
emphasized and powerful. Now we're going to talk about
widening on the low end. Because one thing that I also
love to do is stack octaves. So we already have the higher
octave that were singing along with the lead right here. But what I did is I recorded
four more stacks of a lower end. It's the exact same note. It's just in a lower register. I did the same panning. A hundred percent to the left,
a hundred percent to the right. 50% to the left and 50% to the right. Obviously, you have to turn
down the mixing of these so that they're not overpowering the lead. And also, you know, they're
mixed well with each other. So the low end, I definitely turned
down the most because that's my strong range, but you can still hear it. But we get that full on surround
sound effect with the high and the low stacking that I did. Eight total stacks along with our
two that we originally had before I recorded any of my vocals. This always reminds me of something
like Keri Hilson, or like something that Timberland would be working on. Cause he does a lot of
the octave stacking. So I liked the effect
that we have right here. And how much more grand the chorus sounds Stomach is going on again. Last, but not least using a
chorus effect or a spreader. Now a chorus effect is something
that you use to spread your vocals and give it more of a surround sound. This is an effect that it's especially
useful for somebody like me, who processes my vocals and records
my vocals, the way that I do. And so to further emphasize my stacks,
I like to add this spreader to each and every single vocal so that I get
even more of a wide open surround sound so that when people are listening,
they really feel immersed in the song. So the plugin that I'm using to spread
my vocals is going to be CLA vocals. It's one of those all in one plugins where
you have compressors and treble and bass, this is going to be our stereo spread. And we're going to turn it up
almost all the way to the top. It's going to spread our
vocals that are already panned. So it's going to further sit them
in the background where they belong, Listen to that echo that delay at the end. Ooh, totally sounds amazing. And this is one of my top secret
tricks that I love to teach people. The vocal stacking is super
clutch in this scenario. After our second verse,
we have a double chorus. Basically just copied and
pasted everything from our first course to the second chorus. But! You see here, we have many
more vocals that I did record. Now, these are going to be oohs that I
added to further emphasize a background. And the reason I did this is because
when you have a chorus that repeats itself, once again, you want to change
it up in some way, not just have the same thing repeating over and over. You want to add a little bit of an
extra umph that differentiates the first half of this chorus from the
second half of the second chorus. Maybe it's too much. You know, this is all
just me creating as I go. This is what I like to do. If it is too much, I dial it back. For me it's always nicer to have
something that you add a little bit too much to, and then dial it back later
than to not have enough and not figure out how can I pump it up even more? I'm a sucker for good harmonies. I love harmonies. So I did the same type of vocal
recording that I did for our stacks here. I started with a main background ooh. Then I came up with the harmonic
ones that will go along with it. It's a second note. And then I did a fourth note as well. If you play all of them together. It gives a whole new vibe to the
second part of the chorus, and that's something that you want to do
when you're processing your vocals. And when you're recording your vocals,
you want to tell a story with the sonics. As the listener is listening, you
don't want to keep it static the whole time, the same processing
the whole time you have to. Keep that story going and that's going
to be what really keeps people interested in listening to your song and what
makes for a memorable song as well. I really liked what Isabelle and Peggy
sent me, and I believe that what I did really does add to the song and it makes
it a lot more interesting to the listener. And if you guys found this video to
be helpful, please be sure to leave a like on this video, leave a comment
down below letting us know what vocal processing tricks you're going to
try when you work on your next song. And again, a huge thank you to Shure
for making this video possible. Thank you for having me on board LANDR And as always, stay legendary. Wow. I don't know if you guys
will do the fade out. I hope so. Isn't like a robot. Okay. Hello?
