SirPsychoSexy
New member
Man, I'm having problems, problems, problems.
My band and I are in the studio, and we're a metal outfit. Our vocals can go from clean to gruff to rap to all-out gutteral screaming in one song, and our engineer is having a hard time making it sound convincing.
The clean vocals are pretty easy to fix with a pitch bender and some verb, so that's not really an issue, and neither are the rap-type vocals.
The problems we're having are with depth on the gruffer and more gutteral vocals. They just don't sound convincing. There is no bottom end. We want the sound to be Pantera-ish, but we can't seem to do it.
The mic we're using is this $7000 mic from the late 60's, with a gold windscreen (I couldn't tell you the brand or model), but it picks up nose-hairs rubbing together. I have no doubt this is a superior mic, but for the rougher vocals, we're having to use an SM58 to make it sound better, and even that much isn't helping.
Does anyone know how to get a good "metal" vocal sound? There's nothing wrong with our singer, he's great, it's just that he sounds lot better through a PA than an actual clear recording, apparently.
Thanks,
Chris
My band and I are in the studio, and we're a metal outfit. Our vocals can go from clean to gruff to rap to all-out gutteral screaming in one song, and our engineer is having a hard time making it sound convincing.
The clean vocals are pretty easy to fix with a pitch bender and some verb, so that's not really an issue, and neither are the rap-type vocals.
The problems we're having are with depth on the gruffer and more gutteral vocals. They just don't sound convincing. There is no bottom end. We want the sound to be Pantera-ish, but we can't seem to do it.
The mic we're using is this $7000 mic from the late 60's, with a gold windscreen (I couldn't tell you the brand or model), but it picks up nose-hairs rubbing together. I have no doubt this is a superior mic, but for the rougher vocals, we're having to use an SM58 to make it sound better, and even that much isn't helping.
Does anyone know how to get a good "metal" vocal sound? There's nothing wrong with our singer, he's great, it's just that he sounds lot better through a PA than an actual clear recording, apparently.
Thanks,
Chris