Compression on the voice like The Strokes

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Hello everyone. I'm new to recording DAW. I use ableton live and the zoom r24. My question is how you would get that compressed strokes sound with the voice? I did somewhat achieve it by peaking out the volume on my condenser mic while recording but it doesnt seem like I should be doing that. How do I achieve this sound using ableton? Thanks.
 
There's a grainy quality there. Compression may well be a part of his sound, but I suspect you're hearing a mild distortion.

Either way, don't overload your mic or preamp.
Get a nice clean signal with plenty of room into your daw, then play around with some distortion plugins.
Subtlety will probably be the key. Turn the wet/dry to wet so you can hear exactly what kind of distortion you have, and when you like what you hear, bring it down to a few percent wet.

If you don't have a distortion plug with wet/dry, you could duplicate your vocal track and run the copy through a guitar amp sim, or any kind of distortion.
Again, when you've tuned it to a sound you like, bring the fader right down on the dist. track to make it subtle.
 
Check out The Decapitator if that's the sound youre going for. I would never pay retail (something like $200) but there is a 30 free demo. I used it on my one of my latest recordings by my band Allison Brown you can hear it here

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Hope that gives you a little something to play with even jus for 30 days. I really wish retail wasn't what it is because I really wouldn't mind owning this plugin.
 
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