Vocal Effects VSTs?

[pretzston]

Looking to get an idea what people use for various vocal effects...

- Talking on telephone
- bullhorn
- Elliott Smith harmony sound

All kinds of things. I have a ton of VSTs for vocal effects but I haven't figured it out.

Additionally, how do people do the swooping EQ sound that takes out all the frequencies and brings them back in on ALL the tracks not just one.

 

[bennychico11]

phone...cut the highs and lows. boost a little around the middle (1kHz)...add a little distortion

get a bullhorn...or experiment with EQ cutting and severe boosting, overdrive distortion maybe with a little feedback, ambient verb, etc.

Hire Elliott Smith. Or figure out how he harmonizes and sing similarly. There's no effect to get your voice to sound like his. Analyze his music and figure out which intervals he plays with when harmonizing. I don't know him very well, but after listening to a few samples, most of it sounds like he just doubles his voice.

Swooping EQ....you know how to do it on a single track, right? Apply that same concept to ALL the tracks. Find a point in your DAW where all the audio is mixed together (like the stereo bus) and apply that affect to that bus. It'll affect all the tracks.

Experiment, but don't rely on plugins/presets to take care of all this for you. You might need to do a little work.

 

[andyhix]

Yep, I think the main thing you hear with Elliot Smith is doubling in unison. There might be some additional harmonies over that, but mostly it's all doubled. The rest is likely just the sound of his voice.

As a sidebar, benny, I don't know that I'd advise hiring Elliot Smith at this point.

Elliott Smith died on October 21, 2003 in the Echo Park section of Los Angeles, California in his home at age 34, from two stab wounds to the chest during an emotional fight with Jennifer Chiba whom he was living with at the time.

 

[bennychico11]

As a sidebar, benny, I don't know that I'd advise hiring Elliot Smith at this point.

ooops!

 

[TripleJ]

Hire Elliott Smith.

Grab ya shovel!

I dont quite know what you refer to as sweeping EQ sounds but are you trying to refer to a filter?

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

I read an interview with Elliott Smith and he double tracked all of his vocals. He hated the sound if his own voice and he said doubling made it sound like someone else.

You can get a doubling effect with a fairly short delay but to me it never sounds quite the same as just recording the same track twice.

I don't get the swooping effect you're trying to describe either, do you mean like a phase or flange effect?