Making a stereo track out of a mono source

[Peter Gabriel Byrne]

Hi I am hoping there is a simple answer to my problem.
I am trying to thicken my mono recorded vocal by making a stereo audio track and then duplicating my mono vocal track and then option/control copying and dragging the now two mono tracks into the newly created empty stereo track.
All of the above works fine until I tray to play back the newly made stereo track....there is no sound and the audio in the newly made stereo track looks muted but is not muted. I hope you can help.
Regard
Peter

[Drew Mazurek]

First of all, what you're attempting to do will not do anything except make the vocal louder. Two identical copies of a file will simply sum together, perfectly in phase, and be louder.

What you want to do is leave the original vocal alone and create a traditional Aux Send/Rtn and apply some time/pitch based effects in parallel. You could try Doublers, micropitchshifting each side of the signal (+9 and -9 is the classic setting from the Eventide H3000 from the 80s), chorus and flange applied judiciously might help as well.

[musicman691]

The Eventide H3000 plugin has some presets that will do the job with maybe a little tweaking. Just be careful not to go too far or it will sound more comical than thick.

[sw rec]

Just sing it again. And again. And again.

[musicman691]

Originally Posted by sw rec

Just sing it again. And again. And again.

Groundhog Day anyone?

[sw rec]

"I got you, babe....." (Seriously, though, it's very common for us to lay down each part 3 or 4 times.)