Tracking vocals with a delay

[jekren80]

Hello all! I've been searching everywhere and I can't seem to find a tutorial or an example of how to achieve this. I'm wanting to record vocals with a delay (so I don't sound dry while recording) then when recording is complete I want the delay turned off without having affected the raw recording. Can anyone please explain to me how to do this? I'm a newbie so maybe specific steps could be mentioned if possible? Thank you so much in advance!

[EuanWilliamson]

Wouldn't the answer to this to be:

1. duplicate the raw original recording
2. add delay / echo / room reverb to the duplicate file 

[jekren80]

Hello Euan,

Thank you for the response. I was actually wanting to know how to add reverb to the "recording" track that I would be using to get the original raw recording. Basically I want to hear reverb as im singing in the mic but after im done recording vocals, remove the reverb so it doesn't stay on the vocal track. So when I send it to the mixing engineer the vocal track will be raw and dry without any effects to it.

[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

One thing you need to know is that Audition can only record dry. If you put an effect onto a track whilst recording it, and then play it back it will seem as though the effect is on the recording, but it isn't; if you remove the effect from the track, you'll find you have a dry recording. In other words, the original effect is being applied again on playback. With reverb, you tend to get a processing delay as well which can be confusing - but as long as you remove the direct component of the reverb, and just stick with the reverb itself, it's generally fine.

[jekren80]

Hello Steve,

Thank you so much! That is the exact info I needed! I really appreciate it! Thank you again!