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obscurity wrote:

Rabid Garfunkel wrote:As blue has said in the past, use delay instead of reverb.

Blasphemy!

I use both. I actually record my vox with my favorite reverb settings, because there will never be an instance that I don't want it. Then I add delay, chorus or even more reverb to taste, depending on the song.

Hm... wouldn't you want the delay to happen -before- the reverb? You don't want to have your reverberations have echoes, you want your echoes to have reverbation, right? I tend to use reverb as the final effect in the signal chain.

Lunkhead wrote:Hm... wouldn't you want the delay to happen -before- the reverb?

I would have thought so, yeah. Also compression, pitch-correction and the occasional other effect. Recording dry and then adding fx in software gives you maximum flexibility, and it's not like decent quality vst reverbs are hard to come by these days...

Some tips on EQ-ing vocals, from Deshead's awesome site, Hometracked:

http://www.hometracked.com/2008/02/07/v ... /#more-371

Seems like every time this link comes around, I'm not in the reading mood, but it always looks interesting. I REALLY need to read his writeup, and more. My vocals seem to be lost in a haze of .........hazy stuff.

I check in on that site periodically and there's always something interesting and/or very helpful there. The vocals stuff is good so clear the haze, brother Billy, and read up. (It's not a ton of stuuff anyhoo)