Screamers!

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Now I know most of you Vets on here are probably pretty tired of the general mixing questions on here.

First off, I understand that mixing is an EXTREMELY subjective topic.

Recently I have gained the urge to improve the "badass" side of my vocals and master screams. With a crappy PA I think its going fairly well. I learned a lot about microphone technique and what it actually means to "scream".

On Pro Tools I have messed with boosting low eq and mixing some distortion.

I would like to hear others styles if they dont mind.

I am very interested in:
-high/low fry
-false cord
-growl

Growl= falling in reverse, escape the fate style
False cord= Hail the Villain
High/Low fry= umm...... maybe Bullet for My Valentine

This seems to be a hard subject to find on the internet...for me. Maybe others are a little more search engine savvy.
 
There was a thread here a long while back and i can't remember the ladies name but she has a book out on how to learn to scream.She is a vocal teacher and taught the chic from Arch Enemy and several others on proper metal screaming techniques.Wish i could be more help but maybe someone else here remembers her name or the thread it was talked about in.
 
Yeah I have both videos from melissa cross. I enjoy them. She really doesnt get into the whole mixing and fx process though.
 
Washington said:
Yeah I have both videos from melissa cross. I enjoy them. She really doesnt get into the whole mixing and fx process though.
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Isn't the point though to learn how to scream properly so you don't have to result to adding grit during mixing.A good performance shouldn't need a lot of post processing.
 
The only kind of screams that should really need any kind of distortion are fry screams. Combine a regular one with a really distorted whisper or fry track and some different combos of that but if the person needs tons of processing on it than they probably need to improve their screaming.

Melissa Cross' warm-ups are good but she really doesn't actually explain how to do any of it (She explains a bit more in two than in one though).

If you can figure out how to growl you can do false chord. They're the same thing, you just kind of 'crack' the growl into a higher register for the 'false chord'.
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The processing for screams is pretty simple. Some basic compression (4:1ish), a nice echo depending on the kind of song.

Growling: I like to cut out some of the lows and boost some of the mid-highs to highs to get a bit more 'crackle' into the scream and less mud. Low cut for the win.

For mids and highs just concentrate on a little bit of top end but besides that keep it relatively simple. For reeaallyyy highs high cut to taste. An almost telephone effect can sound really nice, especially if you triple or quad track them (EX devin townsend) and spread them out.

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For wall of sound screams you have to thin out all of the screams and let the combined effect fill it out. Have maybe a main vocal in the center but all of the rest high and low cut the background vocals and spread them out. Have 3 or 4 highs, 3 or 4 growls, spread them out. If you want it huge play with the reverb and alittle echo but normally I just keep it dry.
 
The screams are doubled (performed at least twice) and panned. Other than that, they are just compressed heavily with a compressor that doesn't get all dull when it gets far into the reduction, like an LA2A or 1176 style thing.

There is also a large chamber reverb on it and some delay on the clean vocal.
 
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The screams are doubled (performed at least twice) and panned. Other than that, they are just compressed heavily with a compressor that doesn't get all dull when it gets far into the reduction, like an LA2A or 1176 style thing.

There is also a large chamber reverb on it and some delay on the clean vocal.
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you talking about my thing?
 
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