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Effects for Vocals?
What efefcts you usually put to your vocals?
I mean vocals that you have recorded (so the don't really fit to the song without some effects I think?) 
Re: Effects for Vocals?
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| Originally posted by uniquu What efefcts you usually put to your vocals? I mean vocals that you have recorded (so the don't really fit to the song without some effects I think?) |
Usually some reverb so it doesn't sound so dry. The overall level in the mix is important, so that it won't stick out like a sore thumb.
Sometimes an offbeat 1/4 delay at the end of a phrase can add some style. If you add too much all the time the vocals will sound unclear, but doing some timed effects works well.
Compression! It's almost necessary if the level of the vocal is uneven. And of course a noise gate to eliminate background noise and headphone bleed.
bitcrush, vocode, ringmod and filter 
I don't record vocals. I use the fruity loops speech generator whenever I need vocals. By itself it's not very good, but when you add effects to it, it becomes useable. The effects I use include reverb and delay, of course, as well as compression, vocoder, grainulizer, and distortion. I love vocoding, I try not to overuse it though. I like using 2 or 3 note chords when vocoding, as well as chord changes.
I use a free vst compressor called "VoxengoVoxformer" that has a filter build into it, so you can get a variety of tones combined with compression. There are some nice presets that can make the vocals sound like they are coming through a telephone, an old mic preamp, or a transistor overdrive. It's buggy, and the audio will dump sometimes, so you have to freeze it or bounce it to audio.
For making it more pleasent for the ears:
- Compressor
- DeEsser (For making the "S"-sounds more smooth and not as ear-piercing.)
- EQ
- (Sometimes) Tube distortion (For a bit warmer sound).
For making the vocals blend into the track:
- Delay (I most often have the delay as a send, wich I've put an EQ on and removed most of the lower mids and lower. I find this sounding alot more clean and doesn't disturb the original signal as much.
- Reverb
Waves has a couple of plugins that can be used very effectively for compressing and processing Vocals. Try to flatten the dynamics by adding heavy compression and a limiter at the same time... the Waves L2 is just about perfect for that. 1 rule though, compress before adding other effects.
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| Originally posted by cybernetica 1 rule though, compress before adding other effects. |
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| Originally posted by I<3acid no. fuck your rule. |
have fun
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ahh yes... preVerb and preDelay.
Mostly, I put some reverb and EQ. Sometimes some delay if it are more 'voxes' than vocals.
In some cases, you'd also need a de-esser if the vocalist has a kind of sharp 's' to it 
I hardly put any compression on it as vocals are often meant to be dynamic 'components' to your music. Compressing them will take away some (or all) of that.
EQ, reverb, delay --> in the mix
when I pre-edit the vocal track I deal with compression, and manually getting rid of anomalies (cutting unwanted sounds; usually by hand)
Bah - nobody has mentioned a channel strip? Features vary between models/plugins but they usually all have some sort of band equaliser, a band compressor, a de-esser and some sort of band saturation/overdrive stage.
Its my first port of call for any vocal recording straight off the bat.
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| Originally posted by System101 ok compress after and ruin the other FX have fun |
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