Using Telephone Effect to spice up vocals

Some of you might not know what a telephone effect is. the Most basic explanation of the effect would be that it is basically a band pass filter that chops off most of the high and low end detail of a signal while boosting with a resonant peak in a frequency to simulate cheap radio or telephone speakers. Often times heavy compression is added to a track to keep its level sounding consistent like in radios and phones, Reverb and light delay can be added for a effect or to help simulate a slight slap from a radio in a room. In this video I will be showing how I like to use a telephone effect with a smooth short delay when mixing background vocals that have been double tracked to add some spice. Often times I find that background vocals in mono with such a effect can add a nice color and help enhance a mix. but when you have two vocals that where tracked as overdubs but meant to be background vocals the effect can be used to a even greater degree. In most cases automating this effect is a fantastic trick that can help you add spice to only parts you want. In this case I found that since the vocals where tracked well but not perfectly the delay and telephone effect would go perfect on both vocals panned wide and staying in the mix. Many people often add extra colors to this effect. I for one love to add saturation in the form of my SDRR saturation plugin from Klanghelm. Tony the developer is a great guy and has really made a amazing plugin It can have that warm tube sound a nice bit crusher a fuzz pedal or a nice analog desk with many saturation degrees and modes. For more info on this you can check out some of my earlier videos or posts. As always you must remember that when mixing music there is no wrong way to do things. many people will be using similar things to get the same or a different effects experimentation is the key.