Vocal processors

[davekershaw]

Oct 18, 2008, 5:11pm, lyle wrote:Actually, there are lots of products out there that can give you that "gravelly" sound!Oh yeah, Guinness!! Love it!!! You know, I heard that a pint of beer a day can be good for you.So logic tells me 10 pints is ten times as good?

[gitarrero]

Oct 18, 2008, 7:04pm, mewman wrote:Personally, I have never really understood the prejudice against messing with voice that some have (all respects to Martin!). I mean, we shred guitars to bits, revere effects ridden keyboard sounds, put gates and echoes on drums, and soak things in reverb, why be a purist about vocals!. I say, if your muse leads you to running your voice through what ever plug-in or effect you happen to have laying around, then go for it. Then again, I'm probably the last person you should be taking advice from on the subject of vocals! Mewmanhi mewmansure, one can process vocals absolutely, in fact I'm doing it all the time - as an effect. so what I think is important here: what is the genre, style, what goals do one want to achieve?my post was mainly written for the goal of natural sounding vocals; my interpretation of cameron's first post is that he's looking for natural sounding voices - I might be wrong.but yeah, I absolutely agree to do whatever fits the song - add distortion, plugins, filters etc. as I said this all depends on how it should sound in the end. a lot of genres use natural sounding vocals, some don't (like electronica, some dance & trance tunes, etc).however, if one want to have *natural* sounding voices, the options are limited in my opinion/experience.cheersmartin