Creating An On Beat Echo To Vocals

[leecappella]

Hi, all. Has anyone ever created an echo effect to a vocal? I am trying to add one to a vocal track and I want it to repeat a certain number of times on beat. How can I do this? Thanks in advance to anyone who may be able to assist a fellow musician.

[guitardom]

Is the session set to the proper tempo?? Most delays you can slave to the session tempo and its pretty basic from there

[leecappella]

Originally Posted by guitardom

Is the session set to the proper tempo?? Most delays you can slave to the session tempo and its pretty basic from there

Yes. The tempo is the same as the session tempo. I am new at trying to create an echo. I assume, I should use a delay plugin. I want the last line of the lyric to echo and fade out as it echoes, but not sure how to do that. Getting an echo while a line is being sung is easy, but now to get the last word of a lyric to echo continuously, that's my challenge at the moment.

[Cosme]

I've done it where I copy and paste that word to the grid as many times as I want and perform a slope on the volume.

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by leecappella

Yes. The tempo is the same as the session tempo. I am new at trying to create an echo. I assume, I should use a delay plugin. I want the last line of the lyric to echo and fade out as it echoes, but not sure how to do that. Getting an echo while a line is being sung is easy, but now to get the last word of a lyric to echo continuously, that's my challenge at the moment.

The "proper" way would be to set up a standard FX Send and Return and then automate the send to only send to the Delay for that word.

Same as shown here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3K33qXYz4g

Hope this helps.

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by StewartFang

or duplicate the vocal track(don;t copy audio or playlists) add the effect to the dup and pull down what ever vocal part you want to have the effect on...saves the automation hassle...takes about 30 seconds to set up

The problem with this is that you're wasting voices (might not be an issue but if your session is on the edge it could be) plus no other tracks can access the delay either. It's less efficient.

[leecappella]

Originally Posted by dmazurek

The "proper" way would be to set up a standard FX Send and Return and then automate the send to only send to the Delay for that word.

Same as shown here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3K33qXYz4g

Hope this helps.

If this involves buses, all my buses are noted as n/a (ie. not available). Since I am new to buses, I am not sure why I don't have any available buses. I have not used them at all in my session. Is there something I have to do to make buses available to me? Or, does it have something to do with the device I'm using? Thanks.

[Drew Mazurek]

Originally Posted by leecappella

If this involves buses, all my buses are noted as n/a (ie. not available). Since I am new to buses, I am not sure why I don't have any available buses. I have not used them at all in my session. Is there something I have to do to make buses available to me? Or, does it have something to do with the device I'm using? Thanks.

Open your I/O setup window, click on Busses and hit Default.

[jeffro]

> Hi, all. Has anyone ever created an echo effect to a vocal? I am trying to add one to a vocal track
> and I want it to repeat a certain number of times on beat.

Check out this thread for a similar discussion.

> If this involves buses, all my buses are noted as n/a (ie. not available).

Go to Setup > I/O... and click the Bus tab (at the top), then click New Path (to manually create Busses) or Default (to reset all the Busses).

[leecappella]

Originally Posted by JC

Check out this thread for a similar discussion.



Go to Setup > I/O... and click the Bus tab (at the top), then click New Path (to manually create Busses) or Default (to reset all the Busses).

Thank you. I will try this.