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Originally Posted by Howard Emerson
Nothing fancy, been done for years, I don't know how many times you've heard Paul McCartney sing, but most of them are twice, Lennon too, etc, etc.
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Right, in pop music, real doubling is par for the course, on everything. I recall reading a comment in a magazine about a drum mix and how it was double-tracked, with the comment of "you don't really think a single snare drum sounds like that, do you?" When my son recorded with his punk rock band, playing bass, he tracked his bass part something like 8 times to get the "big" sound they wanted. I thought he was a bit crazy :-) Besides actual doubling, the Beatles used "varispeed", where they'd change the speed of the tape to do the de-tuning by altering the voltage going to the tape motors. One of the pitch shifters I tried was the Waves Doubler, which can pitch shift, and also can sweep the amount of pitch shift to create a less static effect, in theory more realistic - sort of a modern day varispeed. But that sounds very chorus-y when I try it on solo acoustic.
I'm curious how often this gets used on solo acoustic guitar, I've never run into it before, other than as a mono->stereo technique, but now I wonder if it gets used all the time, and just isn't talked about. You'd almost think it'd be a mastering trick.