nickelback - how you remind me

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ok, this is quite my favorite song beeing played on our shitty music-telly-channels here in lil' switzerland.
but that's not that important now...

the thing is, I got very attentive to the vocals (yeeeehaw, once again higher than I can sing in my chest voice :( ) because they really seem to be eq'd quite a bit here and there.

i think I hear quite a lot more high- and low-cut on the word "sorry" and "story" in the lines "it's not like you to say sorry, I was waiting on a different story".
did they really tweak the eq for single words? or did the singer instantly jump back 3 feet for those words and then ran back to the mic? ;)
is that what we call "overproduced"?

and then there's that vocals-only part in the end of the song going "for handing you a heart worth breaking"... wow!!! how did they do this? quadribletripledouble-tracking? :D

btw: who's this girl in the clip? :D :D
 
Hmmm, I like the song alot, and I think its very powerfully recorded, but I never noticed anything "weird" about the vocals, although I'll be listening next time. Chances are, great mic, great pre, great converters, great clock, and great compressor to clean things up... some of the tube compressors the big studios use, La-2a's and stuff, will round out some of the sibilance as things get louder, too... the Focusite does it quite nicely, too.
I'll take a listen and see what I hear...
 
I know the song but not word by word. What I do know is that eq-ing (?) single words is a common use. Software like protools, or even simple console-automation makes it fairly simply to do this trick. Some words that have to have a certain power are recorded separate from the vocal line just to prevent the singer becoming out of breath. They are being 'punched in' later, or overdubbed. Switching tracks or takes makes it easily possible.

I even recall a recording session with several beautifull ladies who had to sing their track each three times and got a 'thank you, you'll hear the result in a week'. I have to say these ladies really couldn't sing, but with a lot of help from heavy studiogear the result was amazing.

or :

take a person who is really famous, but can't sing. Let her try to sing a song. Now take a nonfamous person who can really sing. Let her rehearse along with the crappy vocal-line from the famous person and record this. (ofcourse in tune) Now tweak eq and balance, and 99% of the listeners will think the famous person is singing great.

Gotta buy me some extra equipment !
 
I don't know the song thoroughly either, but it might not be a coincidence that the two words you mention, 'sorry' and 'story', have 's' in them. Could be a simple de-esser at work, which is essentially a multiband eq. Sometimes a quick automated volume dip will be used on 's' and hard consonants instead of or in addition to a de-esser.
 
I know this thread is five years old, but might as well chip in;

The production quality in Nickelback's albums have always amazed me. It's got that huge American rock sound to it. :)

I use Nickelback's stuff (among many others) as references and as sources of inspiration (sonic-wise).
 
actually ... the chorus in the hybrid song is cool ... go figure hehe
 
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