· By Bas Lefeber
You found the perfect acapella but it's in the wrong key. Or you want to push a vocal up for energy. Or you want that deep, pitched-down vocal effect that's all over modern music. All of these require pitch shifting. Pitch shifting vocals is one of the most common production tasks, but doing it wrong makes vocals sound robotic, chipmunky, or just plain bad. Here's how to do it right in any DAW. Basic Pitch Shifting: Transposing the Vocal The simplest form of pitch shifting is transposing: moving the entire vocal up or down by a set number of semitones....