Ableton Tutorials Week 7: Vocal Effect Techniques

In this week's Ableton Live tutorial, Professor Nalepa demonstrates three (3) effect techniques for spicing up your vocals. Inspired by the field trip his Advanced Tech class took this week to Low End Theory to catch a secret DJ set by Thom Yorke, he uses the lead vocal of Radiohead 'Reckoner' to demonstrate the first technique: reversing it, routing it out through reverb, resampling the reverb, reversing the resampled reverb and laying that back underneath the original forward vocal to get a haunting, ghostly premonition-style effect used in a lot of popular dance tracks. He also deconstructs tracks from his friend Nosaj Thing and former students It's Not Over Quebec, showing how they utilized sidechain compression and sidechain gating to achieve impressive results. Nosaj Thing released his debut album Drift and the follow up Drift Remixes on Alpha Pup Records. He is currently putting the finishing toucheson his second album and will be playing an audiovisual set at Coachella on Friday (April 15th) this year. Here is a free download of "Coat of Arms", the song used in this example.
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