What is layering?

[Nicholestien]

I'm not entirely sure what it is, but, my best guess is that it's making multiple duplicate tracks another to make say, a choir, or a one string track sound like a bunch of strings?

how do you do this?

i tried using reasons ntt sampler but i don't know how to make two instruments share the same note, I'm confused. :S

[Skrypnyk]

layering:

when you take the sound of one kick

and place it on top of another kick

you can substitute other sounds instead of a kick.

[zircon]

Playing two or more sounds at the same time. It's a really broad term and the meaning is kind of obvious. You can layer drum sounds, or you can layer a choir and strings, or whatever. It's not typically used to describe just normal accompaniment ("I'm layering piano with vocals".)

[DDRKirby(ISQ)]

interesting that this was brought up.

(for FL users)

http://ddrkirby.googlepages.com/NoSequencingNeeded.flp

now THAT's a layer.

...hahaha i was just messing around.

[Yoozer]

it's making multiple duplicate tracks another to make say, a choir, or a one string track sound like a bunch of strings?

Yes. Usually you don't just duplicate the same track because then you get this artifical phasing effect because frequencies cancel eachother out.

i tried using reasons ntt sampler but i don't know how to make two instruments share the same note, I'm confused. :S

... don't do it, because that's when you get the artificial phasing effect. Layering is first and foremost attractive when you have either different takes (play guitar 3 times, put that on top of eachother) or different instruments (the ultimate new-age combination is a piano + strings, it oozes sugar).

For layering stuff quickly the Combinator was invented.

also, really great example of layering:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBuom7juPRg

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jun05/articles/classictracks.htm

3 guys singing the same note, recorded over and over again for each note. The engineer used the faders of the mixing desk to control volume.

[Nicholestien]

Thanks a bunch yoz bro, I can't believe so many of my mixes have been rendered useless by this phase thing, i didn't realize it was doing it, and now that you told me I can hear it clear as day.

btw,

can you borrow me some of the yoozer sugar brah? My mixes an't sweet enuff'