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Ok guys! I have this really great singer coming in for a session. My budget for a mic is around $103.98-$322.76 and I’m looking for something that sounds like ass. I need to know what you guys think is the absolute worst mic for his voice. And don’t act like you have no idea what he sounds like! I know you just know. I want something shrill and honky that will be completely annoying, or one so muddy that he won’t stand out in the mix at all. Almost like there’s nothing there. I either want his voice to completely be absorbed by the other instruments or is so harsh that dogs run away yelping. He might rap at some point, so it needs to be versatile. On singing it needs to sounds like a tin can, but then I want to switch to rap mode and have it really rape your eardrums!

What can you recommend?

Oh, and does a shitty mic pre really help? Do I need one?
 
PhilGood said:
Ok guys! I have this really great singer coming in for a session. My budget for a mic is around $103.98-$322.76 and I’m looking for something that sounds like ass. I need to know what you guys think is the absolute worst mic for his voice. And don’t act like you have no idea what he sounds like! I know you just know. I want something shrill and honky that will be completely annoying, or one so muddy that he won’t stand out in the mix at all. Almost like there’s nothing there. I either want his voice to completely be absorbed by the other instruments or is so harsh that dogs run away yelping. He might rap at some point, so it needs to be versatile. On singing it needs to sounds like a tin can, but then I want to switch to rap mode and have it really rape your eardrums!

What can you recommend?

Oh, and does a shitty mic pre really help? Do I need one?
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hell yes.......................you wanna get yourself a megaphone loudspeaker & stick it through the preamp section of an alba stereo amp

that should sound bad enough

you could then put the resulting sound into a digitech retro fuzz pedal & in turn run that through a telephone (one of the old 70s jobbies) & re-record it with your megaphone
 
PhilGood said:
No, more like Sinatra ...but I want him to sound like early Geddy Lee. :D
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I thought you were talking more, Dean Martin :p :p but sounding like Rod Stewart
 
Don't use a mic. Give him a toilet paper tube, with an apple on top, and tell him it's a new type of mic...."The Best"......and stick a piece of licorice out teh bottom....it's wireless. Then turn some Dean Martin up on the ghetto blaster, and tell him to rip....It will kick ass. Pocket the $103.98, and call it good.... :D
 
i think anything made by NADY will suit you just fine........... :p
 
Use your cell phone... Call your house on the cell and use one of those phone taps they use for radio to record the feed. Guaranteed limited bandwith and zero head room. OR, even better, use some super cheap ear buds into a SoundBlaster mic in.
 
bubbagump said:
Use your cell phone... Call your house on the cell and use one of those phone taps they use for radio to record the feed. Guaranteed limited bandwith and zero head room. OR, even better, use some super cheap ear buds into a SoundBlaster mic in.
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you could always record that on to a wax disc before it hits the desk

thought..............the "wax disc plugin"
 
tape a pieazo to his forehead and have him sing really loud.
 
A Behringer B-1 through a nady preamp into a phonic firewire interface. That should do his voice some justice.
 
countrylac said:
A Behringer B-1 through a nady preamp into a phonic firewire interface. That should do his voice some justice.
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that's far to good a quality........................come on be serious :p
 
Use a mic that's not suitable for vocals... and then mess the EQ setting so it sounds like shit! No popstoppers and antisibilants... let this things come naturally, muddying the track.

By the way... whay are you planning to do this?
 
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