You'll notice the huskier black-sounding voice that's "dueting" with Nicole on the chorus. TC-Helicon had graciously let me borrow one of their VoiceOne vocal processors for a magazine article, so I simply ran Nicole's voice ran through their "VoiceModel Older" patch on a separate track, and dropped those lines into the choruses. I'd like to think that someone listening to this song who hasn't read these "liner notes" would be able to figure out that it's not a separate singer. Finally, just to really flesh things out, in addition to the "three" different singers on the track (Nicole, myself, and Nicole's VoiceOne-created doppelganger), I also played a chorus of sampled vocals via Reason in the last couple of choruses, as well.
Finally, when the entire track's instrumentation was complete, I brought Nicole back in to rerecord her vocals. We made four passes at the them, and then "comped" them into one really exceptional sounding vocal track.
As I said, this song is a pretty fair example of how far home recording has come in the last twenty years. It's got everything and the kitchen sink in it--but I'd like to think it all works pretty well.
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