What effects are used here?

[six]

Hi folks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfqjE...eature=related


What do you hear is on the vocal track here? I think it's heavy compression and a tad of distortion/overdrive.

Do you know any plugs (the free-er, the better ) that would give me a nice distortion for vocal tracks?


cheers & thanks

[jimmi]

Sorry, tried to listen but I cant fooking stand Robbie Williams.

[six]

Originally Posted by jimmi

Sorry, tried to listen but I cant fooking stand Robbie Williams.

very professional, open minded attitude.

[DarkFriend]

Until the song kicks in, I don't hear anything on the lead vox. When the two part harmony kicks in, yes, I do hear a bit of grunge on the lead vox.

To me, it sounds like really pushing a tube mic preamp hard by pumping the gain considerably.

This effect could be done using Camelphat plugin, rerouting a vocal line through a tube preamp, or possibly using a guitar distortion plugin. The key here is making it subtle, and blending processed and unprocessed tracks together.

[kubeek]

I think it is just a crappy made video, not an intentional effect on the original track.

[jimmi]

Originally Posted by six

very professional, open minded attitude.

Sorry, didn't mean to offend. It's probably a nice tube pre.

[six]

Originally Posted by jimmi

Sorry, didn't mean to offend. It's probably a nice tube pre.

It's not about me - it's more about you. Think about it.

Yep, seems like just a little tube saturation... or a lot. I tried a few plugins, even some guitar-rig-sims, but so far nothing really satisfied me.

"MDA Combo" (free vst) has some nice overdrive-tone on the 4x12 setting, but then again it models speaker sound, which doesn't really sound that good on vocals.

[jimmi]

Originally Posted by six

It's not about me - it's more about you. Think about it.

Nah, I think I'd rather sit here not listening to "the fat dancer from take that"'s cover of a kinks song.

[benage]

there could be saturation or something on the vocal or maybe it's that lo-fi sound you're after in which case you could try making an mp3 of the vocal using a low bit rate say 64kbps (add saturation/overdrive aswell).

[Daisy]

Sounds like a dude. Singing in to a mic.