I haven't tried it, but it makes some sense - "fattens up" the vocal but keeps the consonants crisp (you probably can't hit the consants EXACTLY the same time on your second track as you did on the first). Although if you sing with any vibrato or significant pitch wavers, the doubled vocal might sound a bit weird. Best to try it & see. (FYI, in case you're not familiar with it, there is a "chorus" effect that can be applied - basically doubling the recorded track with a very slight time-shift and phase-shift so it sounds like more than one person. But that can "muddy" the consonants as well.) One kinda-similar thing I did have experience with when I was engineering a "hobbyist" recording of some friends of mine: she was singing a harmony track after he had recorded the guitar & vocal. At one point, the lyric went "Once, we were edg-ed" (as in sharp). With the harmony vocal, the words ran together and it sounded like a potential Mondegreen of "Once, we were wretched". That was vowel-sounds running together, not consonants. I convinced her to make a point of emphasizing the break between the words "were" and "edg-ed" - her harmony by itself then sounded a bit odd, but behind the melody it worked well. I suspect you will probably have to do a few takes of the doubling vocal to get just the result you want. Record a bit, listen to the result, then modify your performance. Good luck! Val
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