What are you guys doing with your vocal harmonies?

[[UEAK]Clowd]

I'll usually kick them out to the side a bit, roll off the high end a tad... sometimes I'll compress differently(harder).

still can't get them to sit quite like the pros do, they are either too quiet or too loud.

 

[muckypup1]

for the extra layers and harmonies, pan them a little to each side, turn them down and add a slight reverb, and hi pass them to take some of the bass away. at least this is what I would do...

 

[Morgan C]

Really depends on the voice.. sometimes it works easily, sometimes it sticks out too much if you try and pan it, so you just have to keep both dead centre.

Something that works awesome 99% of the time though, double the vocals (either double the harmony, or just do 2 MORE takes of the main melody, as well as your lead vocal), quantize (elastic audio) and tune to perfection, so that every syllable is aligned. Makes your vocals so wide and smooth, and they just fit in so well. Thank you Nickelback/Paramore for this. Then you can distort the lead vocal quite substantially to make it stick out more, without really losing much clarity.

 

[crillemannen]

If you got a stereo choir, then off course pan them, Put on reverb,delay and a doubbler , and they usually can handle ubsurd amont of tuning without sounding weird in the mix

 

[Erlend_]

I find that giving the backing vocals more high end works best for me. Not cutting.
Also I roll off quite alot of the low end.
Then send them all to a group track with a stereo compressor just to glue things together a bit.

As for panning, in the past I would do hard L&R but lately Im liking about 50% L&R better.

 

[greyskull]

generally filter quite a bit off the bottom and top. Not as drastic as a telephone effect sort of thing, but a tamed down version of that. Then Spanked With la2a and panned depending on ararngement and whereever the fit best.
Sometimes centre or left or right by 5 works, sometimes 30 - 50 and sometimes hard panned.
Totally depends on the song/style/arrangement.
VERY hard to get right.
Also give them a fair bit of reverb, and a differnet delay to the lead vocals. Normally a quicker one so they're not too "swimming pool" But a quickish delay which is then sent to the reverb is very nice on them

 

[Dollarosa]

Compress the hell out of them, high pass, add abit of chorus, reverb and tap delay, pan around 25 % either left or right, automation throughout song.