How doubling a voice ?

[Pierre-Stanislas]

Hello everybody,

I'd like to know if there's an audio effect (or anything else) that allows you to double a voice or instrument without having to duplicate it on a new track? I haven't found an answer anywhere.
and the effects library is so extensive that searching is very difficult.
Thanks a lot;
Pierre S.

[RobrechtV]

Try the Delay effect, fully wet, feedback zero, with a minimal, but slightly different delay time for the left and right delay lines.

This is assuming you want to double your track for a widening effect.

This approach has some drawbacks. Depending on the delay time difference (simply doubling will do nothing, you have to introduce some difference) it can lead to canceling/comb filtering if you listen to your track in mono. For many purposes, actually recording a second take is the best way to widen or thicken your track.

[pottering]

There is a doubler effect as part of the Phaser-Flanger device (its 3rd mode), and there a few doubler presets in the Core Library.

[otalgia99]

The suggestions offered above may satisfy, depending upon the result you want to achieve.

If you're looking for the classic doubled sound, then you might discover that multi-tracking a performed vocal may be the option you really want unless you're willing to settle for -- or maybe are actually looking for -- a result that sounds a bit "canned" or created by an effect.

If you go the old-fashioned "track it twice" (or more than twice) route, there are tricks and techniques for singing doubled vocals that are worth knowing about, they make deriving a satisfactory result easier. I'm sure the interwebs is full of know-how on that score.