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Vocal Group Harmonies | Making Hit Vocals – EPISODE 2

TC-Helicon presents a video series that showcases the creative process in Making Hit Vocals live. Laura Clapp and Tom Lang bring your hooks, harmonies and various vocal ear-candy and reveal what effects are used and how they are tweaked.

Scroll to the end of the post to get these effects using VoiceTone Harmony-G XT and VoiceLive 2.

EPISODE 1: Group Vocal Harmonies
Laura Clapp demonstrates the live production of group vocal harmonies with Break Me Out by The Rescues. In the studio each part in a group harmony is recorded by a different singer. In this episode of TC-Helicon’s Making Hit Vocals the effect is produced live with a harmony processor by manipulating gender and humanization.

VoiceLive 2
Download one of the presets below to try out group harmonies. There is a version of the preset for female singer and another for male. This is exactly what Laura brings up in the video – how the voices arranged depends on the range of your voice. Each preset has two steps. The first step has a single harmony (low for female, high for male). The second step has two harmony voices (low and lower for female, high and low for male).

DOWNLOAD – Preset 315 – Break Me Out for female vocal – VoiceLive 2 Preset (on Mac, please drag or copy the link into your web browser)

DOWNLOAD - Preset 316 – Break Me Out for male vocal – VoiceLive 2 Preset (on Mac, please drag or copy the link into your web browser)

VoiceTone Harmony-G XT
Creating this song is simple on Harmony-G XT. Follow the steps below:

1. Select Preset 1 A

2. Set effect to Hall

2. Set Voice 1 to Low (if you are a female singer) or High (if you are a male singer)

3. Preset and hold preset to store

4. Select preset 1B

5. add Voice 2, set to Lower (if you are a female singer) or Low (if you are a male singer)

6. Store preset 1B

Now you can switch between the two parts of the song.

Comments

19 comments to “Vocal Group Harmonies | Making Hit Vocals – EPISODE 2”

  1. Hello I am a Trumpet player that uses your Voicelive 2 extreme edition and I am trying to create my own harmony 5ths below and above 4ths below and above and sus with fix a note
    how would i go about doing that?
    Please help

    Great Product
    Duane Smith
    FUZZ BAND
    D*NIK
    Duane Smith Quartet

    • Hi Duane,

      You can create custom scales, which would limit the harmonies to the specific notes you choose. Alternatively, you can feed it a MIDI file to guide everything precisely.

    • May 1, 2010 at 4:55 pm by ReNe
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    Hi Joey
    I found out where the problem is. It definitely doesn’t work with safari. I tried it on Firefox and everything works just fine:-) thanks for your help.

    • Heya Rene,

      Fantastic! Thanks for letting me know :) .

      Best wishes,

      Joey

    • April 24, 2010 at 5:14 pm by ReNe
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    Thanks Joey – I will do that

    • Hiya Rene,

      Let me know how you get on :) .

      Best wishes,

      Joey

    • April 21, 2010 at 10:30 pm by ReNe
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    Hi there – Unfortunately I can’t download Preset 316 on my Mac. If I drag or drop it to my webbrowser there are appearing several werid figures and letters. The same happens with all Presets downloading in die HOME Area of VoiceSupport. Can anyone help me?

    • Hiya ReNe,

      Sorry to hear you are having issues.

      It may be best if you get in touch with our support team about this one. They will probably be able to solve this for you quite quickly:

      http://www.tc-helicon.com/support.asp

      Best wishes,

      Joey

    • April 5, 2010 at 5:23 am by fablo
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    i cannot upload the syx file into my VoiceLive 2. I always have a error message. I don’t understand where the problem is? my voicelive 2 works with ther lastest firmware version 1.2.01 Build91.syx.
    thank you for your help.

    • March 13, 2010 at 5:04 pm by Jeff
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    Yes I can’t do anything with the preset for the Voicelive 2.
    How does this get loaded?

    Curious,

    Jeff

    • February 10, 2010 at 3:33 pm by Tom
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    Hi, I too am having trouble downloading preset 316. Link appears to still be broken.

    Have you come up with a fix yet? Thanks

    • Hiya Tom,

      Let me investigate this and get back to you. Bear with me…

      Best,

      Joey

  8. I’m a proud owner of Harmony G for the past 18 months, and I’ve been using it a lot.

    Here’s the latest example, in my original uptempo blues tune, with the vocal recorded live:
    http://musicline.ca/2010/01/live-blues-musicline-studio/

    Backing vocals are done using Harmony G. All recorded in one take – no overdubs or editing/comping.

    Cheers,
    George Solo
    http://musicline.ca
    http://georgesolo.com

  9. I tried renaming it and saving it like the previous post suggest, and it did not work for me.

      • December 22, 2009 at 12:29 am by Joey
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      Hiya Jay (and others!),

      Thanks for alerting us to this! We’re working on getting this fixed as soon as possible. I’ll let you know as soon as we have it sorted :) .

      Best wishes,

      Joey

  10. Episode 2 preset 316 isw the same as preset 315. Link doesnt seem to work. Thanks

    • December 20, 2009 at 3:59 am by Cris
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    Hi,

    Thanks for the new episode!. The link to download the Break Me Out for male vocal is not working though. It downloads preset 315 (female version). I changed the number on the link and it worked.

    Regards and keep the good work.

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