How to use delay for vocals - 5 easy tips

There are lots of creative ways to dial in your delay to turn your average mix into something special. In this video, Brian will show you his five secret tricks to make your vocals shine. Check out the video, load your favorite plugin, and let's start mixing!

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00:00 Intro
00:20 Short slap delay
03:13 Longer slap delay
05:43 Ping Pong delay
08:36 Ducked long delay
11:22 Delay throw
15:26 Outro

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[jeffburnham]

This is incredibly helpful! I really appreciate how tasteful you are with these production techniques!!

[robertmolzer]

Thanks for sharing these valuable techniques, Brian! I've been listening to Eastern Souvenirs back and forth for the last couple of weeks. I love what you are doing!

[DeltaWhiskeyBravo]

Excellent pointers on delay, reverb, EQ for them, and ducking them. I like doing these myself, and can be a great way to add to the sound.

[paulschumachersings]

Concise, thorough, to the point. Excellent video!

[jackkellyKMM]

Useful stuff. Thx! I'll be using the J37 trick!
A couple of, hopefully helpful, thoughts: 1) Nice to know you are 'Brian' but might be good to add a last name and a single line of description telling us your bona fides. 2) The narrative gets a bit tedious due, I think, to lack of dynamic range. Maybe a little less compressor/limiter could help with that.

[chriskemp]

So are you putting all these different delays on the track at once? Also you mentioned reverb at the end, it would be good to have an in-depth tutorial on using reverb, this one was great, thanks

[LaidbackSounds]

How are you enjoying the Kali speakers ?

[LFiers]

Amazing video, great information! I have a question, with layers like backing vocals or chorus backing vocals, is it good to use the same delay on all the layers like for example an 1/4 or 1/8 ping pong delay?

Or is it best to only have separate type of delays on each vocals layer or should I only use delay on one vocal track amongst the vocal stacks?

Like I my lead vocals, a double and then 2 highlight ad-libs. Should I add delay to the lead, double and ad-libs? Or just the lead? What do you think? I know it's subjective but I'm curious to hear from you and your thoughts on this

Hope them questions makes sense. Thanks in advance

[sos-vlsh]

tysm for the tutorial. Sir! what is this software you are using ? pls so i can download it

[DavidLeo]

Vocal channel (all takes) -> Vocal Bus with inserts like pitch correction, gain, EQ, comp, Soothe, etc. -> Send this to Delay & Reverb Bus with EQ & Saturation -> Stereo mix

Is this correct?

[PooNinja]

Thickness with clarity, cause sometimes reverb gets muddy.

[thehigherupz]

Which Lewitt mic are you talking into or using?

[mobiletoonz]

the plosives on pushing sound really muddy, and the saturation on any "s" IMO is too much. That being said I really like the overall effect you are adding.

[guillaumes]

I'm trying to do vocal delays on my song, and I tried copy pasting the two vocals and just making the second one a tiny bit late after the first. However that creates a electronic sound of my voice, like a robot almost. Anybody know why that is? I don't know much about sound engineering, so I'm trying to either rerecord my voice over the mail vocal, or just copy and paste.