Vocal Processing

[b to g is yummy]

I dont really know to much about vocal stuff, but i'm wondering if any of your bands have the vocals go through a rackmount vocal processor/effects thing etc...

My singer has a nasal tone and i think it'd be nice if we could fatten out his sound a bit. However it might be weird to have heavy reverb on when he's talking....

anyway i'd appreciate comments and advice. assume i know basically nothing about this subject please

thanks tbers

[roger winkler]

Our band, www.recklessunion.com uses one. I think it's a Yamaha, but not sure. Anyway, they are great for rounding out your vocals. Depending on the gig, you may not need it, but every room we play in is always different accousticly speaking. There are times when the vocals needed to be very dry, and times when we needed some "hall" or reverb effects. In our case, it's a good thing to have, cause you never know how the room is gonna be till you start playing.

[T-Bird]

Hi.

What I understand from Your post is that You control the FOH sound from the stage?

Any good modern and/or vintage FX unit can be controlled via remote, with MIDI or simple switches. On some MIDI controlled ones You can assign several parameters to be controlled by volume pedal also.

With a simple UP/DOWN/BYPASS 3 button stomp board Your singer can change the programmed reverb patches up or down according to the song and mute the reverb during the occasional joke or two between songs.

Alesis Midiverb family comes first to my mind, there's plenty of them available, they're cheap and of reasonably good quality.

Then again, for rock IMHO You need only one vocal reverb throughout the gig and a single bypass floor switch would be enough.

Just my 0.02€
Sam

[AdlerAugen]

I read a great article on mic'ing not that long ago, and though it was meant more for studio recording, the same thing applies here. It said something to the effect that if the singer has a nasal tone that it could be balanced out somewhat by putting the mic lower and closer to the chest area, instead of high and closer to the mouth/ nose. A lot cheaper solution.