Improve scream recording

I haven't got sound on this computer so I can't listen to your clips, but vocal recording is all in the performance. Some of the best sounding vocals I have tracked have been through cheaper setups, because the performance was so good. Distortion is great to use on vocals too (in varying quantities depending on the source). Since switching to a mac I really miss the plugin Rubytube by silverspike. Right now I'm using VintageWarmer2 for distortion and its doing quite a nice job.
 
I haven't got sound on this computer so I can't listen to your clips, but vocal recording is all in the performance. Some of the best sounding vocals I have tracked have been through cheaper setups, because the performance was so good. Distortion is great to use on vocals too (in varying quantities depending on the source). Since switching to a mac I really miss the plugin Rubytube by silverspike. Right now I'm using VintageWarmer2 for distortion and its doing quite a nice job.

Well if VintageWarmer is called distortion, I also love it :rolleyes:
 
I think the vocals sound fine. The "laziness" only comes through for me in the talk parts. I would recut those if possible, however I think with some distortion and (slight) eq adjustment you'll be fine, it's close as is.
 
I think the vocals sound fine. The "laziness" only comes through for me in the talk parts. I would recut those if possible, however I think with some distortion and (slight) eq adjustment you'll be fine, it's close as is.

Thank you
I think its okay for a 16yr old that has just been practicing for 2 months :erk:
/bragger

Does anybody think its sounds better now than before?
 
Scoop the proximity out of it at 200Hz and put a gentle notch at 987Hz, thats where the transformer distorts a bit on loud input, but put a windscreen on the thing.

REMEMBER 987Hz
 
Nah, I dont like using distortion on vocals. I rather use magneto or some other tape saturation plug

Saturation is another type of distortion, especially when pushed hard.

What I would make (like many others suggested), is to get a better performance. Emotion is big factor especially with screms, bitchslap the singer if it needs to bring the hate out and make him go fucking nuts until he gets it right. You have seen this one (00:45 forward), right?

 
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Saturation is another type of distortion, especially when pushed hard.

What I would make (like many others suggested), is to get a better performance. Emotion is big factor especially with screms, bitchslap the singer if it needs to bring the hate out and make him go fucking nuts until he gets it right. You have seen this one (00:45 forward), right?

Yeah I´ve have a lot of emotions when I scream, but when Its gets too much my scream fails.
Need some more practicing I guess.
I cant jump around like jonathan in front of a SM57 :p
 
Yeah I´ve have a lot of emotions when I scream, but when Its gets too much my scream fails.
Need some more practicing I guess.
I cant jump around like jonathan with an Sm57 in front :p

Yes you can, you can even keep the SM57 in your hand. Ross Robinson did it with Deftones too (except I think they used SM58). Remember, its -ALL- about the -PERFORMANCE-. Performance over soundquality. Any time. The Beatles.

Dude...KORN!??!

Dude...Emotion.
 
Try double tracking the vocals. I think that will help the most.

I'm another guy who's not a fan of obvious distortion on vocals, but it can help if you blend in a distorted take with a non-distorted one.

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Try double tracking the vocals. I think that will help the most.

I'm another guy who's not a fan of obvious distortion on vocals, but it can help if you blend in a distorted take with a non-distorted one.

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Ive tried that one time, the different tracks doesnt fit with eachother.
Got any tips how to make ém fit?

/Jonas
 
Ive tried that one time, the different tracks doesnt fit with eachother.
Got any tips how to make ém fit?

Better/more consistent performances, but some singers are just terrible at it.

Otherwise, you can use shit like Vocalign or manually edit. Generally, you keep the double tucked underneath the lead vocal, the point being to reinforce.
 
I think it's the screaming technique, all in all. It's different to the way Matt does it, his is a bit higher in pitch, and less throaty. Also the clean vocals could do with more energy.

Upon closer inspection, it's the bassist screaming most of that anyway so it sounds a little different to Matt. Still a bit more "wetness" in the vocals if you know what i mean.