Your favourite plugins and tricks for backing vocals

shayleon

Hi

What are your favourite tricks/plugins to process backing vocals? Especially if it's only 1 track of BV.

All the best.

S.

DamagedTrax

depends on style.

for pop you can widen them with hass effect and pan them. sit them back in the room a bit and scoop them around the lead.

for indie if i only had 1 bv i'd probably push it back and to the side a little. maybe use a mild telephone filter or similiar.

you could leave it a tough off centre and either hi or lo pass it depending on timbre of lead vox.

stateofflux

it depends if its a front up harmony of the main vocal or an ambient thang (choiry, whispery, ooohs and aaahhs etc)....if its a straight up harmony then i just mix it the same as lead vocal and drop the volume slightly. if its an ambient thing then pan left and right with a stereo reverb and compress the ****e out of it to emphasis the breathing etc

PaulBrewer

Tuning and timing are the most important thing for me - especially on Ssses .

What sticks out as 'unmixable' may well settle into a track well with a bit of fettling.

Also the balance between the 'root' lead vox and the harmony is very important.

Sometimes one hears BVs too loud which always sounds wrong to me.