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I don’t know Isaac’s face very well. Please confirm.

I feel like every time I double track my main vocals they end up sounding phase-y in a very unpleasant way and also kinda beefy and bulky.
How does Sufjan Stevens get that ghostly choir multitracking effect on his vocals? What’s José González’ secret for his warm and subtle double tracked vocal sound?
I’ve seen a million videos talking and showing double tracking techniques but none of them sound like those artists I just mentioned.
Are producers and recording/mixing engineers keeping these secrets to themselves? Or am I just dumb?

I tried panning, EQing, fx sends (reverb, delay, compression). It never sounds natural or good.

I’m not a very good vocalist so that could be it as well. I’m not tone deaf but I’m not a trained vocalist either. I heard that double tracking helps bad vocalists but it hasn’t been my case so far.

Are any of yall going through this?

EDIT: I’m so grateful for all the responses! You guys are amazing and gave me so much to work on hahaah (loving the grind). I’ll get to work these next few days and share my results if possible. Thank you so much for taking the time to help me out with this one and for sharing your experiences ❤️🙌

I genuinely don’t get why so many people and media outlets refer to Forever Howlong as “progressive pop”. I feel like in a lot of ways it’s denser and a tad bit self indulgent. You’d think they’d go for stickier hooks and softer textures like pop usually does but I don’t hear it here at all.

HAHAHHAAH I TRICKED YOU THIS IS AN ISAAC POST FUCK YOU

Isaac will be back in the band mark my words. Don’t even argue with me on this one, he will be back and there will be an Ants tour fuck yes fuck yes fuck yes. And YOU will be there. And YOU, and YOU. And specially… YOU!!!!