Flangers and chorusing devices. We'll orient ourselves with our vocal in the Phantom Center. [MUSIC] We'll open up a new track. Stereo, AUX input, create. We'll call this PHASER, And I'll caps it. The input to this will be Bus 13, 14. Across this track I will put a modulation unit called a Phaser or AIR Phaser. AIR is actually a company brand under Avid. AIR stands for Advanced Instrument Research. I will create a send that will be Bus 13 and 14. And since I'm doing parallel processing I will move the mix, the actual effect itself will go to 100%. And I'll see if I can blend this phaser into my audio track. So this is my audio track. [MUSIC] Now you remember the phasing sound? That we had when we shifted our vocal by 1 millisecond? I'm going to slow the rate of this phaser down and let's listen to this vocal. [MUSIC] Very similar to that 1 millisecond shift. The phaser is taking a shift to the relationship and moving from about 1 millisecond to 3,4,5 milliseconds and it's sweeping at a certain rate. I should be able to make this move very fast. [MUSIC] If I get it up to about 3 hertz. If I make it 1 hertz, it'll be moving at 1 cycle per second, 3 hertz is 3 cycles per second so [SOUND] is probably how it's moving now. Whoops, I will type in 3 and hit Play. [MUSIC] If I increase the depth you can really hear the wiggles. [MUSIC] If I increase the feedback, you'll get a more resonant sound. [MUSIC] A crazy effect. Most people use this at a very slow rate. [MUSIC] An interesting sound. If you take the same cyclical movement that's moving from about 1 millisecond to 5 or 6 milliseconds and make it broader, let's say move it from five milliseconds to 25 milliseconds, we've got a wider signal kind of rotating within that widening range. That might sound a bit like a Flanger and I'll go in and find my Flanger under the Modulation window. A Flanger, we'll just change this for a second and listen to our track by itself. Watch I can just bring the send down. [MUSIC] And then I'll increase the flange effect on this dry vocal. [MUSIC] I forgot to bring it to 100% wet. I'll do that first and then I'll increase it. [MUSIC] It sounds similar to the 1 millisecond phase relationship, similar to the phaser. It's actually wider. We're more in the realm of widening getting closer to doubling. So the voice is a little bit more distinct and not as cloudy as it was with the phaser. I can increase the depth. [MUSIC] See how it feels more like a double than the phaser did? And now I'll slow the rate down. [MUSIC] And I'll turn the feedback up, so you can really hear the wiggles. [MUSIC] Now you can blend this down lower in a track and get some cool effects. [MUSIC] And I will increase the rate of the cycles per second, go a little bit more of a wiggle on the vocal. [MUSIC] I like when it cycles nice and slow. And we'll give it a little bit more intensity. [MUSIC] Let's look at one more unit, our chorus unit and here's AIR's Multi-Chorus. This unit and I think there might have been another one. Well we'll try the air course because it's a simple unit. Once again we'll move that to 100%. We'll turn our send down. We'll label this just for consistency go ahead and play and we'll raise our chorus level up on our vocal. [MUSIC] Do you feel that doubling sensation? Chorusing lives in a 30 millisecond To 60 millisecond world, the world of doubling. And this course device has our vocal spread left and right, so we are getting a sense of widening with the vocal performance. [MUSIC] I'll increase the depth so you can really see what's going on on the left side and the right side. [MUSIC] What's going on actually, is that the left side and the right side are modulating opposite each other. And it's creating enough of a pitch variation. And since it's stereo, it's pan left and right. That pitch variation against the original lead vocal is giving us enough of a difference to create a subtle stereo effect. I'll slow the rate down and see what happens to our vocal. [MUSIC] I'll speed the rate up, and watch what happens to my vocal. [MUSIC] So you see when I've spend it up you can actually feel the pitch falling and dropping away from the original performance. [MUSIC] So, a way to use a chorus device is to have a minimal amount of intensity. So, we'll lower the depth. [MUSIC] I'll raise the feedback up, so we can see what's going on with that parameter. [MUSIC] You can hear the sweeping motion, similar to the phaser and the flanger If I turn it up all the way you should be able to hear that sweep a bit more. [MUSIC] These are related effects, the phaser, the flanger, and the chorus device, good. To make a composition more interesting, I might not use this across an entire song on a vocal, but it's nice to highlight certain sections of a composition.