Favorite vocal productions?

[ratsapprentice]

Vocals are something that i often don't pay that much attention to, in terms of production, but what are some of your favorites?

I think Mustaine's vocals on Countdown and Youthanasia sound phenomenal, that really smooth, glassy pop sound really suited him on those albums.

 

[Mr.Skull]

I really dig the vocal layering stuff that Steven Wilson has done with Porcupine Tree, as well as on Opeth's Damnation.

Performance-wise, Pain of Salvation's Remedy Lane is probably my favorite. The vocals on "Waking Every God" give me chills.

I'm a prog guy, can you tell?

I wish I could get more technical, but I don't know dick about vocal production.

 

[Mago]

Mercenary - 11 Dreams.
Epic as fuck.

 

[BrettT]

Katatonia- Night is the New Day

 

[Ermz]

Creed - Full Circle.
Disturbed - Ten Thousand Fists.

No joke.

In the metal realm:

Gojira - Yama's Messengers (seems to have more saturation than rest of the record)

 

[P-E]

Pain of Salvation's The Perfect Element and Remedy Lane are amazing in that department. Be is too.

On more extreme metal, I think Stabbing the Drama's got a killer vocal production.

 

[slashvanyoung]

FNM - King for a day, fool...

In terms of everything: performance, production, mix.

 

[ItsAFugazzi]

Hetfields vocals on the Black album.

 

[The Unavoidable]

^ Oh hell yes

 

[Ermz]

IMO CLA does the best vocal mixing/fader moves. His whole style seems centered around it. Literally the entire mix seems to suffer just for the vocal to sound massive.

If anything listen to this, if I had to pick a single fave vocal sound, this is it:



Ben Grosse also did great with this:



Randy did a pretty good job here:



And of course:

 

[The-Zeronaut]

Behemoth - Demigod.

 

[HandsOfDespair]

 

[Erik Monsonis]

Anything by Sturgis

 

[ahjteam]

FNM - King for a day, fool...

In terms of everything: performance, production, mix.

All Mike Patton and Freddie Mercury stuff are pretty phenomenal vocal production wise

 

[Harley Barley]

New stick to your guns album.



or the latest killswitch album

 

[Charles J]

By far, Blindside - Silence. But overall, pretty much anything CLA touches.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Weezer
Sevendust
Sara Bareilles

Punch the fuck in!

 

[DolphinSplatter]

 

[Rockchops]

sound-wise my favorites are Bloodthirst by cannibal corpse and Obsolete by Fear factory

 

[Damphire]

Nightmares made flesh - Boodbath