The best pop vocals have a habit of sounding effortless, but watching singer-songwriter Charlie Puth explain how he goes about producing them in Pro Tools makes you realise that recording and editing them is anything but.
In the video above - an excerpt from Puth’s class on writing and producing a pop song from scratch, available now on Studio - he reveals that, when recording tricky-to-sing vocal phrases - in this case a two-word (‘hope’s up’) chorus hook that jumps up a whole octave - he uses a trick he learned from producer Ryan Tedder. This involves breaking the phrase up and recording each word separately.
