It’s a bit like playing drums to a click track - if you have the skills it can tighten up the track, but if you don’t, it will probably ruin the recording and you’re better off playing without it. It does, however, take some skill for the vocalist to pull it off. Skillfully executed stacked vocal doubles - recorded fairly well, of course - with just a bit of compression on the vocal bus and not much else can give you a very familiar sound associated with expensive pop productions. Vocal doubling (or ‘double tracking’) is a tried and true way to make your vocals more powerful and get a thicker, more polished or “produced” vocal sound.
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