Talk:Double tracking

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I sincerely wish amateurs and lay people would not attempt to edit technical pages. I have been a recording engineer for over two decades, and a student of Recording for longer than that, and I have never seen or heard of "single tracking" in ANY recording sourcebook or document, let alone in any studio. I have only seen the term used in lay articles, used to illustrate the difference between a doubletracked and non-doubletracked vocal. Zephyrad 03:02, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Double tracking

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 20:32, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

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Doubletracking → Double tracking —

Article title is spelt incorrectly. Moved without consensus or discussion to incorrect spelling on 28 September 2006. Radiopathy •talk• 00:32, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

• Support, Googling seems to confirm that the two-word spelling is more common.--Kotniski (talk) 16:34, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Pioneered by Buddy Holly

I couldn't figure out how to put this in the article as a citation, but I found this by checking against the Buddy Holly article: Norman, Phillip (February 3, 2015). "Why Buddy Holly will never fade away". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022. Retrieved August 27, 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:20, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Buddy Holly could not have used double tracking

Since Geoff Emerick invented it when the Beatles recorded, Buddy Holly who died in the fifties could not have used it. Dbaps (talk) 19:37, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Who says Emerick invented it? ~Kvng (talk) 15:30, 4 March 2022 (UTC)

Audio examples of automatic / artificial double tracking

Hello Kvng, you recently removed the audio examples I posted with the comment that there are already enough guitar samples and a vocal sample would be better. I agree with you on this ;) However, I think that the examples of artificial double tracking with delay, chorus, detune and copy-paste are encyclopedic per se and thus make a useful addition to the article. What do you think ? Skimel (talk) 16:08, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

I think it is confusing to include so many examples. We should focus on an example of what's covered in the article. Everything in the Examples section is about vocals. Guitar is not mentioned in the article but could be implied by the "play along with" statement in the lead so I'm OK to leave the one guitar example until we get something better. If you want to add some information about guitar double-tracking to the body of the article, you're welcome to but please cite some reliable sources. IME, what is demonstrated in some of the examples I removed would be more likely to be described as layering; double tracking tends to be specific to vocals but, if you disagree, let's have a look at what sources say. ~Kvng (talk) 16:18, 29 March 2022 (UTC)