Tuning Vocals Transparently: How to Use Melodyne or Antares Without Sounding Like a Robot
Pitch correction has become so common that the meaningful question is no longer whether a vocal was tuned. It is whether the listener notic...
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Vocal Production
Stories filed under Vocal Production from BACKDOWN Magazine.
How to Record Ad-Libs, Background Harmonies, and Stacked Vocals That Actually Glue Together
Stacked vocals can make a hook feel cinematic or make it sound like twenty unrelated people arrived at the microphone. The difference is ra...
How to Prep Your Raw Vocal Stems for a Mix Engineer Without Triggering Phase Issues
A mix engineer should not have to reconstruct the recording session before mixing the song. Yet that is exactly what happens when an artist...