(Eli5) why do the vocals of a song have an echo when you listen to the vocals only version of a song?
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If you wanted to make something bigger, you add more of it. The way you do this with sound is one ore more of three basic ways in order of most effective to least effective on their own for making a sound bigger.
1. You can record once, then record another take of the same thing and any differences will come out as a bigger sound. This is called double tracking.
2. You can use editing to slightly change the speed of a copy of one recording of something so that it adds variations.
3. You can use effects like reverb (which mimics the sound bouncing off surfaces, known as reverberation) and delay (which adds an echo effect by playing back what goes into it with a slight delay, as the name suggests). These effects will make the recording sound bigger.
The people who record and mix songs will combine these three basic methods in different ways to get the desired effect.
Often times, the preferred way to make vocals sound bigger without double tracking will be with reverb and delay, as it leaves the purest example of the performance and can be applied after other editing options have been done.
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