Flex Time vs. Melodyne - which one first in your vocals workflow?

Hi all,

I am curious about what workflow you guys have with vocals.

The first steps after recording (and perhaps multicomping) the different layers/tracks, are to me pitch-correction in Melodyne and time-correction with Flex-Time (built into Logic pro).

Which one do you guys do first?

I haven't yet got enough experience to judge with much certainty which way serves the recorded audio best.

Myself, I currently go melodyne on one vocal track at the time, snap-to-pitch off and adjust pitch by ear with the music tracks as guide.

Sometimes I push formants around, in particular if there's a high note with lots of pitch drifting (those high notes can be difficult to hit ;-).

After that, I layer vocal tracks that belong together, and work with flextime until they are reasonably well-timed with particular focus on consonants and note ends.

I tend to keep one recording centered, and two (or more) panned to the sides; a configuration that is very transparent to time differences.

I *think* I do this because I have this idea that if I do flextime first, I will already have spectral content that is more damaged, that will be more difficult to pitch-correct with minimal artifacts. While as time-stretching or -compressing melodyne artifacts, will not do much to change the harmonic content of the material.

Whether this is "correct" or not, I don't know for sure :-}

So, I'd like to hear your experiences and opinion on this!

Cheers;

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