Re: [LAU] Black/Death Metal vocals

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:31:34PM +0200, leslie.polzer(a)gmx.net wrote: I don't recommend using effects -- work on your microphone technique and you should be able to achieve all the classic sounds without having to strain your voice much. Good death metal vocals are often not nearly as loud as they seem. I've never heard any effects that sounded nearly as good as an experienced death-metal vocalist. Distortion tends to bring to mind industrial and EBM vocals rather than metal. Compression can help to even things out, and reverb as appropriate (or as inappropriate, for that kvlt black metal sound). That said, experimenting with different mics can help to achieve particular tones (black metal is better served than death metal by the ubiquitous SM-58), and a decent mic preamp can also help. Some admittedly silly, mediocre-quality examples (made exclusively in linux, though!): http://cipht.net/tmp/bmbbq-invitation.mp3 (black metal-ish) http://cipht.net/sillyness/tidings-of-comfort-and-joy.mp3 (death metal-ish; from ages ago, so I must have been using a really cheap mic at the time.. also I can now here that my technique was really a lot weaker at that point, proof that practice and experience really help.) Cheers. -- Julian Squires