We all know there’s a lot of trickery involved in studio vocal production, but it doesn’t all boil down to Auto-Tune and Melodyne. Among the myriad possibilities afforded us by DAWs is the ability to capture endless recordings, enabling us to record our vocalist singing as many versions of our song as we like and then cherry-pick all the best bits to make the perfect, dream ‘take’. This is what’s known as compiling or comping.
Of course, the technique is applicable to any recorded performance, but in this tutorial we’re focusing on comping a lead vocal using Logic Pro X. Everything we’ll show you can also be done in any other DAW, of course.