Harmony Recording Awesomeness

Recording your music alone in your home studio can be challenging, especially if you want vocal harmonies in your song. What if you don’t know any other singers? And even if you do, getting them to your place, teaching them the parts, and then recording everybody can be a huge hassle.

I grew up loving groups like Journey, Kansas, Queen, Chicago, the Beatles, Boston, The Eagles, ELO and Dan Fogelberg. They all had incredible sounding vocal harmony and I wanted to sing those songs.

Problem: Of all my friends who could sing, NONE of them could sing harmony for some reason
Solution: Sing all the harmonies myself!

Well it wasn’t easy in the 80s! I used two tape recorders and bounced my voice back and forth between them until there was 3 or 4 part harmony. It was cool, but it was god-awful noisy (gotta love cassette tape recording). And I certainly could not afford to go to a recording studio.

I was stuck doing things this way until computer recording came around with easily affordable high-quality sound and unlimited tracks. If this technology had been available when I was a kid, I may never have seen the light of day:).

Now everyone can afford great- sounding recording capability. And anyone can record harmonies and make them sound like Queen, or Kansas…if they know the right techniques.

Hear what just one voice (mine) can sound like (of course you can do this with multiple singers too:))

Nope. You can do amazing things with just a decent USB mic (~$50) and free recording software. You can then do even more with Reaper software, a large diaphragm condenser mic and a USB recording interface box. And all of that is STILL less expensive than going to a commercial recording studio.

Nope again. This course shows you the basics using tow different recording programs – Audacity (free!) and the totally professional but crazy-affordable Reaper software ($65).

This course will show you how to sing harmony with yourself! Take a listen to the audio samples below, where ALL the harmony parts were sung by just one person, layering audio tracks one at a time.

Yes, you absolutely will. Though the focus of the course is how to record real singing by real people, sometimes using software to generate harmonies can be easier or faster or just allow you to create different effects. There is a 4-part lesson showing you how to use three different harmony programs – ReaVoice (free, as it comes with Reaper), Harmony Engine EVO, and Vielklang Instant Harmony). These 3rd-party plugins tend to be a bit costly, but they have trial periods to try them out.

These 18 videos will show you step-by step – using either the free Audacity, or the crazy-affordable super-professional software called Reaper, how to start recording your own awesome vocal harmonies

You get access to 21 videos and pdf transcriptions for each one.

So if you love vocal harmony and you want to record amazing vocal harmonies on your computer in an hour or two, this course is for you!
[Much of the material in this course also appears in The Newbies Guide to Audio Recording Awesomeness course. Current owners of the previous courses can contact us here for special discount pricing.]