How do you make a vocal track?

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How do you make a vocal track?

Postby Ocular » 05 Mar 2013 07:40

I'm working on a song and I have a few singers that are interested but they need a vocal track to cue them when to sing and such, but I'm not sure how to do that.
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Re: How do you make a vocal track?

Postby the4thImpulse » 05 Mar 2013 09:19

I work with them in studio. I send parts of the actual song out to to their headphones while they sing into the mic, record a few takes and edit the bad parts out and splice it all together.
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Re: How do you make a vocal track?

Postby itroitnyah » 05 Mar 2013 15:11

Find a song with vocals, and listen very closely to the parts before and after the vocals the kick in to find how to build the tension for when the listener can expect them.

try and make it a song of the genre you're making as well. Sometimes tension builds and releases can be genre specific, although not really. It can be more helpful to find a genre specific song with vocals though.
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Re: How do you make a vocal track?

Postby Stu Beef » 05 Mar 2013 16:24

They don't know when to come in? That's an interesting issue.

Give them the track and just throw in the melody (on some other instrument like piano) so they can listen to their line. I would assume you'd do that already, but that's what confuses me; what issues are they having specifically? Is it an awkward entrance? It can't be that crazy. Why wouldn't something like "ok, here's 16 bars of instrumental and then you come in with the melody" work?
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Re: How do you make a vocal track?

Postby JSynth » 06 Mar 2013 09:59

I usually record my own vocals, then send them the recording along with an instrumental.
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Re: How do you make a vocal track?

Postby cplbradley » 06 Mar 2013 21:48

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Re: How do you make a vocal track?

Postby DusK » 06 Mar 2013 23:34

Stu Beef wrote:They don't know when to come in? That's an interesting issue.

Give them the track and just throw in the melody (on some other instrument like piano) so they can listen to their line. I would assume you'd do that already, but that's what confuses me; what issues are they having specifically? Is it an awkward entrance? It can't be that crazy. Why wouldn't something like "ok, here's 16 bars of instrumental and then you come in with the melody" work?


What he said. If you're using FL Studio, a dry 3xOsc works very well for conveying a melody to a vocalist.
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Re: How do you make a vocal track?

Postby Nonsense_Profile » 11 Mar 2013 09:05

Send them the BPM and Chord Selection, That's what I do, I never had a problem before.
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