Recording "hardcore" or screaming vocals
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Posted on Mar 02, 2007 05:19 pm
Hydrial69
Member Since: Dec 11, 2006
i have a band comin in soon and i've been experementing, but it'd be good to hear from you guys how u've done it b4, or how u think i should b done.
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Mar 02, 2007 05:48 pm compression gooin' in, and two pop filters, and be ready for them to be soaked with spray! no joke! and no matter what you do, do NOT let him hold the mic, and make him sing up twards it...place the diaphragm about eyeball height and tell him not to eat it. in fact have him take a step back.
www.myspace.com/destroybydesign
TadpuiI am not a crook's headMember
Since: Mar 14, 2003
Mar 02, 2007 05:59 pm And maybe even try a dynamic mic instead of a condensor, especially if he's all screaming and no singing. Think of him as a guitar cabinet :)
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
Since: Jun 20, 2006
Mar 02, 2007 10:22 pm I agree on the dynamic mic also. There are things they do to mics to achieve those sounds that you would never want done to a nice condensor.
cruxTypo SzarMember
Since: Jul 04, 2002
Mar 02, 2007 10:28 pm this might not be a significant part of recording the vox but my band also does mostly screaming stuff, and as the vocalist i like to turn up the music REALLY loud in my phones, barely hearing my own vocal. It feels really weird to scream in a studio then on stage with tons of noise around u, it really makes me scream out better to be immersed in it. Plus, if your screams r really floating over the music in teh tracking room i find its common for everyone to kind of cringe and think its wrong. Screaming just seems to be a different vocal animal.
Mar 03, 2007 12:48 am i am trying to learn how to control screams a little better. there should be a way to make it sound ragged without shredding your voice completely.
Mar 03, 2007 11:06 am well theres a actual "way" to scream, go to youtube and type in zen of screaming.
theres a certin way u scream so that u dont rip your vocal cords and wreck your voice
Mar 03, 2007 03:33 pm wow that's weird. there's one with a scope in her throat. i dont know how much of that i can watch...
Mar 03, 2007 04:49 pm lol hahaha
theres only a small section on that
Mar 03, 2007 06:45 pm yeah but that's spooky
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Mar 04, 2007 02:57 pm I will as well support the use a a dynamic mic for the screamer type vocals. There are some LDC's that will do a fine job but I would not punish any of mine that way, unless as stated above you can keep the vocalist back away from it a bit.
Mar 04, 2007 03:01 pm yea, i think im pretty damn sold on using the dynamic ;) thnx
Mar 05, 2007 12:42 pm using a condensor is actually pretty great!! i used a Blue Baby Bottle for screams and it was fantastic.. that condensor and using ProTools was sooooooo sweet!! thats only if u got $$$ tho! i used it at a professional studio w/ my band back in da day!
Mar 05, 2007 04:23 pm lol, but the question is, did that condencer live ;)
Mar 05, 2007 09:55 pm hahahah!! heck yeah.. this dude still uses it.. heres the link
www.myspace.com/tonalrecordstx
he does very very good recordings for cheap.. and hes been using that mic for about a year!
