Re: [LAU] Black/Death Metal vocals

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:31:34PM +0200, leslie.polzer@email-addr-hidden wrote:
> has anyone got some tips on Vocal F/X to achieve the voice typical to
> Black/Death Metal music?

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
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