"hot" vocals

Posted on May 12, 2004 03:49 pm
fortymile
Member Since: Jan 18, 2003

i'm listening to john frusciante's "to record only water for ten days" (absolutely fantastic album) and i notice that he has this thing going on in his vocals. it's deliberate.

his vocals sound like theyre mixed deliberately hot. sounds they hover around the boundary of maximal saturation, but when he gets passionate, they distort. it sounds, i guess, like what you'd get if you were running a signal past 0 db, but without the horrible clicking and popping.

i really like this sound. how can i do it?
maybe it's just a regular distortion effect, like what i would get with my POD if i used a "blues" setting, where the signal distorts the louder you play?

or is there some other way to do this?

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