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Singers & Effects

#21
Yeah, but I think he uses that to get that "talking down a phone line" kinda sound. Surely Les has the resources available to him to avoid having to use a Green Bullet to get effects on his vocals!!!

For those playing at home, a Green Bullet was the microphone that Elwood traded the Blues Mobile for. :D
 
#22
niftydog said:
Yeah, but I think he uses that to get that "talking down a phone line" kinda sound. Surely Les has the resources available to him to avoid having to use a Green Bullet to get effects on his vocals!!!

For those playing at home, a Green Bullet was the microphone that Elwood traded the Blues Mobile for. :D
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Yeah I pretty much have no idea what you are talking about here :hmm:

I saw Les play a few weeks ago (yes it was amazing, and I got an autograph) and he had two microphones, a normal one, and one that looked similar to that... thats what I was basing my assumption off of.
 
#24
Niff said:
how do you get a XLR mic output through a 1/4" in/out pedal without buzzing sounds? a mixer?
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The singer in the "The White" (http://thewhite.net) uses a pedal board with guitar effects on it. I think he has a high -imp 1/4" microphone to work with the effects and a DI at the end of the effects chain to convert the signal to a low imp XLR.

I use a TC-Helicon VoiceLive. ([Invalid or Expired Link Removed]) which lets me run with a stomp box a miriad of vocal effects (4 part harmony, delay, reverb, voice thickening, EQ)

My only complaint with this unit is the outputs are 1/4" high impedence. As the mic input is XLR/low impedence, you'd think the output would be the same.
 
#26
ARCtrooper225 said:
We used my BSW and got close to that "WOWOWOWOWOWOW" sound in By the Way (RHCP), and had fun with the reverse function of my looper
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I would image that was actually guitar in the recording

on a side note, in coffee shop off of one hot minute, I really love the voice effect they use, I think it might be a second vocal part sang in falsetto through an octave up then distorted... just an idea anyways...
 
#29
There's a group called Five O' Clock Shadow that's not as active anymore (Link Removed) that uses no instruments, just voices, but they ran through a bunch of different effects to sound like instruments - 3 guys would do guitar parts, 1 would do beatbox (vocal perc and bass simultaneously), 1 would sing the melody or do the guitar solo line. It was some pretty neat stuff - I saw them at PMEA a few years back and had them come to my school to do a masterclass for my students. The samples on their myspace, I'd recommend What's It All About and If You Could Only See as the examples of their effect sound.
 
#30
heh. i tried a crappy microphone through my chain today. whammy pedals are HILARIOUS to play around with. flange is quite a cool effect and could see me using it while singing (if i learn), and delay is just great. distortion.. well, my GT2 ain't so good for vocals. maybe a fuzz is better? i dunno. fun to experiment with anyway.
 
#31
cathal said:
matt belemy uses a megaphone

but the bassist sings through a vocoder
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On that video, Mr Bellamy does NOT sing through a megaphone. He sings through his microphone, with distortion. I believe he sings through a megaphone on Feeling Good.

When does Chris sing through a vocoder? Is it in Supermassive Black Hole? Because there is a weird effect on his voice at the end of the chorus....
 
#34
ALiP BoB said:
Again, I ask. Who knows what effect Killswitch Engage uses, especially live. It's some sort of chorus I think.

For those who don't know KsE, here's a vid. Listen to the vocals.
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I only listened to the first minute-and-a-half, but I would say it was a digital filter of some sort. There were moments when it sounded like just a para EQ with a narrow bandwidth, moments where it sounded like a vocoder, and moments where it sounded like a wah. All of those are of course types of filter. Always there was a "stepped" "nasal" quality that made me think digital. I suspect there was a soundguy adjusting the processor offstage for verse/chorus/etc.
 
#36
bongomania said:
I only listened to the first minute-and-a-half, but I would say it was a digital filter of some sort. There were moments when it sounded like just a para EQ with a narrow bandwidth, moments where it sounded like a vocoder, and moments where it sounded like a wah. All of those are of course types of filter. Always there was a "stepped" "nasal" quality that made me think digital. I suspect there was a soundguy adjusting the processor offstage for verse/chorus/etc.
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Thanks, appreciate it but not exactly the ans i've looking for.
Maybe it was a bad vid.
 
#38
For my live vocals I used to use an older Zoom multi-effects bass pedal that could do up to 9 effects simultaneously. I would generally use the 'reverb' + 'echo' + 'something else' with the 'something else' being either 'chorus', 'octave lower', 'overdrive' or 'flange'. It sounded remarkably good for live vocals which surprised me because it wasn't the most pleasant sounding for bass.
 
#39
Heard an acoustic song the other day with a delay that was so subtle you had to strain to decide if it was even there most of the time, but as the singer got louder it increased but never got beyond just noticable. Worked pretty well for keeping things intersting but not obnoxious. Unfortunately the conclusion is still that I need to get an enveloope (although I'm sure thats not what they used)
 

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