# creating harmonies with a vocaltrack in gold wave

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## Post 1 by Darth Vader (Luke, I am your father.) on Friday, 07-May-2010 21:49:47

Hi all. I was wondering if there's a way I can record one vocal track, then overdub more tracks on top of the original and creat harmonies? also, is there a way that I can hear my other tracksas I can with audacity? Many thanks in advance for any help!

## Post 2 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Saturday, 08-May-2010 10:49:43

Yes. Record the first track, then record another track in which you harmonize. Now simply mix them.
Note that if you wish to convert your final product into mp3 the tracks must be wav files. Hope that helps.

## Post 3 by Darth Vader (Luke, I am your father.) on Saturday, 08-May-2010 14:44:55

ah, ok. do I need to select them before mixing? or will they already be selected? Also, how do I know which track is which?

## Post 4 by DevilishAnthony (Just go on and agree with me. You know you want to.) on Saturday, 08-May-2010 15:57:06

You'll have to save each file, then mix them all together. Gold wave is not a multi track recorder, but there are still ways of mixing the tracks. just play around with it at first, before trying to do anything serious. It'll pay off in the longrun. You'll have to figure out which tracks you want to be the loudest and stuff like that. Edit each track, then mix them in, one by one. Feel free to corner and harass me if you find me here on the zone.

## Post 5 by Darth Vader (Luke, I am your father.) on Monday, 10-May-2010 19:23:49

will do, sir. *smile*

## Post 6 by Darth Vader (Luke, I am your father.) on Friday, 14-May-2010 18:07:59

Oh, and I didn't mention this, but when I've mixed the files, is there a way for me to knodge them so that they're in time with each other? If so, how would I do this?

## Post 7 by Harp (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Friday, 14-May-2010 20:05:56

I use SoundForge predominantly not Goldwave so I hope what I'm about to write isn't misleading but if it is, that's why.
When mixing two files together it is important to remember that once the mix is complete, that you are no longer working with two files. You will obviously still here two voices or instruments, depending on what you're working on obviously, but they are now a single file so you can do nothing to manipulate the two audio components separately.
The key though to answer your question is that you have to alter the start time of your mix point to align the two chunks of audio correctly because again, once they're together, you can't shift one track backwards and forwards. The good thing of course is that this can easily be done by ear. So open your two files, select all and copy the second one and then CTRL+Tab into the first window and hit mix. Then listen to the result. If it sounds to you as though the harmony is starting a quarter of a second earlier than it should then undo the mix, using the standard windows undo hotkey for such a command and then alter the start time accordingly. That is to say set the mix point a quarter of a second along in the track. Then listen again until you're happy with the result. It can be quite a tedious process but eventually, you will have what you want.
I'm sure a Goldwave officeanado will jump on and perhaps be able to offer more specific help than that, but that in general is how I'd tackle what you're trying to do.
Dan.

## Post 8 by DevilishAnthony (Just go on and agree with me. You know you want to.) on Saturday, 15-May-2010 0:23:30

Yep, exactly. You should be able to use your left and right bracket keys to set your markers in the first file, then mix the second file at the staart marker's location in the first file. hTH

## Post 9 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Saturday, 15-May-2010 14:18:48

In goldwave, you'd need to set place markers and do it that way. Otherwise, you can add delay to one of the files and time them to match up.

## Post 10 by Darth Vader (Luke, I am your father.) on Friday, 21-May-2010 22:58:54

Ah, thanks! This'll help me out a lot.

## Post 11 by HauntedReverie (doing the bad mango) on Saturday, 22-May-2010 13:31:21

in goldwave, in the mix dialogue, you can set it to mix by time, so no matter where your marker is, you just change the digits, replace, and then tab twice and preview. if it's not right, tab to stop, go back up and change the time. I find it easiest to set the start marker as close as possible to where i want the mix to begin, and then change the time from there.

## Post 12 by Darth Vader (Luke, I am your father.) on Sunday, 27-Jun-2010 11:35:17

I see. If I were to set delay to one of the files, would I still need to set the place markers?

## Post 13 by margorp (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Sunday, 27-Jun-2010 15:17:31

I'll have to test that one out.