[Michael Beacom[_4_]]

On 2017-07-24 23:03:41 +0000, Scott Dorsey said:

Michael Beacom wrote:
On 2017-07-24 13:24:26 +0000, Scott Dorsey said:
Michael Beacom wrote:
So, I'm mixing harmonizing lead & backup vocals. And only one phrase
sounds distorted. So I listened to each track individualy, they sound
clean. And I muted each voice, and they are clean. I lowered the backup
vocal to make it less noticable. Is there a better fix?

Is there leakage between the two channels, or were they made in isolation?

If you shift them by 1ms, does everything change?

Or are you clipping the mix buss?

My guess was that the two voices were beating against each other, so I
tried shifting the voices by a few ms (5-10), and that helped.
I did notice that if I shifted farther away from the sweet spot, it
sounded much worse.

Maybe but.... is there leakage or were they made in isolation?
--scott

It was a live concert, and both were working their mic pretty closely.
There some guitar, but no vocal bleed.

I did a little more tinkering, and found a more probable explanation.
Shifting one of the vocals offset the peaks, so they didn't add
together, and distort. It's annoying that it wasn't enough to trigger
the overload light.

Cheers
Mike