Tool vocal EQ?

[Syle]

Specifically songs like Eulogy or Stinkfist. It's that thin, yet still intensely present sound that Maynard is getting with his vocals there.

I was thinking cutting lows obviously. Is there a set EQ cutting technique for this am-radio sound?

Thanks

 

[felipe-x]

you welcome

 

[Syle]

?

 

[HeadCrusher]

Don't have the songs in my mind right now the radio sound is basically a narrow bandpass. so set your lo- and hi cuts and raise/lower the frequency until it sounds the way you want it.
Cubase has an EQ preset - I think it's called phone line.

 

[colonel kurtz]

if you're talking about the vocals during the verses...the "he had a lot to say...he had a lot of nothing to say" blah blah - that was done by signing into a megaphone

 

[Syle]

if you're talking about the vocals during the verses...the "he had a lot to say...he had a lot of nothing to say" blah blah - that was done by signing into a megaphone

is there any way to simulate it with EQ?

 

[JBroll]

is there any way to simulate it with EQ?

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/production-tips/338343-adam-d-vocals.html

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/...-how-do-vocal-trick-andy-you-know-answer.html

It's been discussed... search...

Jeff

 

[HeadCrusher]

U guys really think the actually recorded the megaphone?
I made a megaphone sound by adding a little distortion to normal recorded vox + the "telephone" eq and a slapback delay on an aux. sounded cool imo.

 

[Syle]

U guys really think the actually recorded the megaphone?
I made a megaphone sound by adding a little distortion to normal recorded vox + the "telephone" eq and a slapback delay on an aux. sounded cool imo.

how do you add that many effects to a single track in Cubase though? I only see two insert spots available.

 

[HeadCrusher]

Are u on Cubase LE? If so no problem anyway: Use the first insert for a compressor, the second for the distortion (there should be something usable even in Cubase LE). The EQ can be used independly of the inserts so thats fine too. And for the Slapback Delay: Create an Effect Track in Cubase and then use a send of your original vocal track to get as much Delay as you like.

(Sorry if these instructions seem stupid, I dunno how much experience you have..)

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Cubase has an EQ setting labeled telephone or phone or something like that.

 

[aramism]

this is also a staple of opeth...


but i know that maynard does do whacky stuff outside of engineered eq and stuff. the megaphone is one of them

 

[musickey]

Here is a really cool plug you might want to check out

http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Speakerphone/speakerphone.html

 

[Metaltastic]

this is also a staple of opeth...


but i know that maynard does do whacky stuff outside of engineered eq and stuff. the megaphone is one of them

More a staple of Steve Wilson's that manifests itself in his work with Opeth; he uses it to great effect

 

[colonel kurtz]

U guys really think the actually recorded the megaphone?

i know that he physically sang into and recorded the megaphone for parts of 10,000 days, and used to use it live for eulogy, so i don't see why not

 

[HeadCrusher]

Ah, k, I see, just thought that one would have more tweaking options if "clean" vox were recorded. At least that was the advice that was given to me on this board when I asked how to achive a megaphone sound and it worked fine for me that way!

 

[Syle]

Are u on Cubase LE? If so no problem anyway: Use the first insert for a compressor, the second for the distortion (there should be something usable even in Cubase LE). The EQ can be used independly of the inserts so thats fine too. And for the Slapback Delay: Create an Effect Track in Cubase and then use a send of your original vocal track to get as much Delay as you like.

(Sorry if these instructions seem stupid, I dunno how much experience you have..)

How does one add an effect track? I get the inserts part. And I also see the 4 Send tracks that can be activated on a single audio track? Is that what you are talking about?

Sorry if I seem so newbish, but it's because I am a newb

I found the EQ settings I was looking for. But this adding more than one Insert per track has intrigued me.

 

[Syle]

Here is a really cool plug you might want to check out

http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Speakerphone/speakerphone.html

that looks expensive

 

[theunforgiven246]

that looks expensive

It is. Something like $500 or so.

 

[colonel kurtz]

Ah, k, I see, just thought that one would have more tweaking options if "clean" vox were recorded. At least that was the advice that was given to me on this board when I asked how to achive a megaphone sound and it worked fine for me that way!

useful advice, for sure...but i guess if one is producing a major label release, with a decent budget and great engineer at the helm, you might as well splurge and go pick up a megaphone

not to mention that aenima was released in 96, which meant it was probably tracked in 95...i believe to 2" tape, which meant there was no option of using plugins after the fact.