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Recording Screamed Vocals


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This may be the wrong forum, but I'll ask anyway. My band and I are finishing up a 5 song recording and we're finishing up with vocals. I was curious if anyone had any tips on how to compress, eq (other effects?) screamed baritone vocals. They range from death metal style lows to higher mid range. No real high shrieks. I'm using an SM-7 mic wise.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

We use logic if that helps.

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Good choice on the mic. But the main thing is you have to have the screamer know what's louder for his vox and adjust his mic closeness. Unless you want to go in and cut up the entire track and adjust the loudness of each scream. Screamers tend to have two things, really loud screams and really quiet screams. A compressor will not work enough for the variance in loudness of a screamer.

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This may be the wrong forum, but I'll ask anyway. My band and I are finishing up a 5 song recording and we're finishing up with vocals. I was curious if anyone had any tips on how to compress, eq (other effects?) screamed baritone vocals. They range from death metal style lows to higher mid range. No real high shrieks. I'm using an SM-7 mic wise.


Any help would be appreciated.


We use logic if that helps.

 

 

The majority of screamed vocals could do with being double tracked - maybe at different pitches.

 

Ultimately, some fast compression to give it a louder sound can help (or whatever microdynamic things you can do for loudness.. without killing the fineness and beauty of it unless you're going for a popcore or deathcore sound)

 

Stereo panning, stereo widening.. you may find even a bit of distortion/overdrive will help.

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Listen to Through The Eyes of The Deads early music to hear some distortion used. You can also use what me and my friends call the "radio" effect. Basically it's a 2 band eq where you take out all the low end and it sounds really cool especially use with a delay or something using the same word.

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