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The lead vocal sound for Three Doors Down's latest record...

Thick and rich but not too obviously affected (effected!)

If its a chain of $5,000 compressors and a $12,000 EQ , and, oh yeah , and a $4,000 mic, and an $8000 preamp. Fine I'll accept that.

But where does that quality come from? What is the main influence... Is it compression, EQ? Is it the mixing of the vocal with heavy on the vocal and light on the band?

This question may be unanswerable

Thanks, any insights would be greatly appreciated
 
All of the above? A good performance from a talented vocalist in the presence of competent engineers who made intelligent decisions about good equipment? All followed by a mixing engineer with experience who turned the end product over to a mastering guru with 20 years of experience on $20,000 speakers.
 
Quality comes from people. If the singer is good, and the engineer is good, it will sound good. A good engineer can make a good singer sound good with ANY gear.

Spend more time in the studio, and less shopping for gear, and your recordings will sound better.


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dwillis45 said:
A good performance from a talented vocalist in the presence of competent engineers who made intelligent decisions about good equipment?


You mean it wasn't just some guy plugging his C1 in to his portastudio?

Damn.
 
Light said:

Spend more time in the studio, and less shopping for gear, and your recordings will sound better.



Indeed I agree. I'm not looking for compressor settings or a new piece to buy.

I guess I'm just wondering about the heaviness and the smoothness- isn't there any hint a to the focus ?(EQ or Compression).

This question appears to be unanswerable. Looks like performance, experience, and alot of money.

I looked up 3 Doors latest producer Rick Parashar, and found that he's worked on Alice in Chains and Nickleback too. To my ears, they too have this quality to the vocal sound.
 
There are a few singers who could use a C1 and a portastudio and still sell me a CD! Robyn Hitchcock, for example, or possibly Gillian Welch. I remember having a Dylan bootleg album from the early 60's that was recorded with a cheap tape recorder in someone's kitchen. I would also listen Mark E. Smith of the Fall even if he recorded without his bullhorn! So, there is obviously some room for a few people to escape the general rule.
 
Alanfc said:
The lead vocal sound for Three Doors Down's latest record...

Thick and rich but not too obviously affected (effected!)

If its a chain of $5,000 compressors and a $12,000 EQ , and, oh yeah , and a $4,000 mic, and an $8000 preamp. Fine I'll accept that.

But where does that quality come from? What is the main influence... Is it compression, EQ? Is it the mixing of the vocal with heavy on the vocal and light on the band?

This question may be unanswerable

Thanks, any insights would be greatly appreciated

It's mostly just simple double and triple tracking.
 
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Kramer said:
It's mostly just simple double and triple tracking.

Oy !

That makes perfect sense. I can hear it now (or I think I can )

thanks
 
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