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Distorted vocals ala Jack White

I'm trying to think of all the songs on which I've thought that distorted vocals added something as opposed to taking something away. Let's see, there's .......
aqualung
several songs by the beatles
several songs by nine inch nails
several songs by the white stripes

just off the top of my head....
 
Woah, back from the dead.

I actually ended up getting a Placid Audio Copperphone, which is the same mic he was using in the original clip. Ran it through a BDDI, and there was the sound I had been looking for.
 
He has a Gretsch with a built in Green Bullet harmonica mic, its on a retractable cord I think his luthier got off a vacuum.

Its pretty crazy, if you watch It Might Get Loud it shows the guy cutting a whole in the back of his gretsch and putting in the cord. Its a great movie.

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flaggaudio.com

Their mics sound a lot like the strokes in terms of tone. It's like a pro audio payphone:
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You can use distortion but you need either a strong gate or a killswitch of some sort. If you've ever seen Mike Patton, he actually makes self-contained environments to cut down the feedback, like building mics into gas masks and things like that.