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So do you have any tips on making vocals more agressive or maybe eq vst ar compresion tips?
 
lukmen said:
So do you have any tips on making vocals more agressive
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Think of the girls (or lads) that rejected you or the traffic ticket you just got or people or situations that have really upset you......think on it good and get really unreasonable.......work it up till you're just short of ready to go out and kick someone's car window in......







then get your lyric sheet and hit "record" !
 
If we had a whole lot more information, we could probably take a crack at it. "More aggressive" is awfully ambiguous on its own...

Are you hitting a nice, slow, heavy dynamic with a solid performance and plenty of headroom? Are you overdriving an overly-sensitive 3-micron condenser with a less-than-aggressive voice?

What are you working with and what are you missing out on? "How do I make my car go faster" is a pretty open question...
 
sounds like a performance sort of thing not an eq/compression/effects thing.

you want more metal sound, use a real metal plate reverb, that'll sound like metal.
 
i want vocals to have more grid to it and more "in your face" sound making my grow a little harder :) and anyway do you use something special to make you vocals sound better?
 
for metal, I tend to use an SM7 through a good preamp and compress on the way in. Then in the mix, I accentuate the 2k area and compress some more.
 
First, in our head everything sounds cool while in reality, it can sound very different.
In other words, you won't get a natural agressive sound with a non-aggressive voice.
In reality, screaming out all of your emotions can often sound horrible, try to stay focused on your goal.

Do some research on microphones and get yourself a good dirty old preamp hooked to it.
I recommend recording the vocals dry as possible and add a "little" room later on to give it a sence of space and "up-front".

Try to get the sound as close as you want it to sound like before you record it, then add some EQ ( search on google for "EQ primer" )
You might want to add tape compression to make it sound more aggressive and upfront.
 
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i want vocals to have more grid to it and more "in your face" sound making my grow a little harder :) and anyway do you use something special to make you vocals sound better?
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Totally dependent on "what you have" vs. "what you want."
 
Farview said:
for metal, I tend to use an SM7 through a good preamp and compress on the way in. Then in the mix, I accentuate the 2k area and compress some more.
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+1 on the SM7 with decent pre that has enough clean gain for it. Lots of compression helps as well. This mic really brings out the "best" in really agressive vocals. It just adds to the performance by not sounding as clinically clean or bright as a condenser mic, but retaining the clarity of a condenser at the same time.

I am a bit of a metalhead and can tell the difference between a good sounding and bad sounding screamer, though some styles are left to musical taste and opinions. No amount of processing will make a less agressive, poor performance convincingly more agressive. I have tried to do it and it is much more difficult than fixing normal singing, because there is no equivalent to autotune for scream vocals.. Adding subtle distortion, EQing, doubling, reverb, delay etc to try to make scream vocals sound in your face are never as convincing as just letting it all out right at the source.
 
Those vocals are doubled (at least). Are you doubling them? Are you using a comparable mic/mic preamp? It really just sounds like the honk tones are EQed out (400hz, 700hz) leaving the lows and the 1k to 4k in. Then it is compressed a lot.
 
googled for "EQ primer"

Thanks, good read to refresh the basics.
 
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