Vocal Distortion

[Jow]

Hi there

Can anyone give some advice on how to achieve a good live distortion effect on vocals?
I'm not a screamer, more of a singer, but I want to add some distortion to certain parts of my vocal, is there a decent pedal that can do this?
I have tried a Boss ME-50 (http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/PRODUCTS/EN/ME-50/)
but i get too much feedback from it which makes it impossible to use, the gate setting on the pedal didnt seem to help.

Any help would be great

 

[colonel kurtz]

i don't have any hands-on experience with getting live distortion on vox, but i'd bet a good ol' green tube screamer would work pretty well

 

[weapon is guilt]

Brother i am looking for a good way to do the same thing. i have heard that if you can gate it right it can help with feed back which is what we all fear. i want to use more than distortion. i am a screamer and a damm good one. but what i would like to do is add some processing to do even more. like odd delay and differnt effects. i got a super hush C and i am thinking of getting a feed back destroyer to see if i can tackle this obsticle. any one with some advice i would welcome it as well. cause it is a bitch to figure out. but i will share what i can figure out. im in experiment mode right now.

 

[SambaBoy]

The problem is that while the guitar picks up signal only when the strings vibrate (or if you SHOUT fucking LOUD into the pickups), while a vocal mic picks up signal all the time, so a guitar noise-gate is never gonna get you far anyways.... I'd get an EQ, and fuck around with that. Also remember that you don't need gain to make cool grimming/screaming vocals.

 

[weapon is guilt]

you know now that Samba mentions it i do remember this dude telling me he made a mic out of a guitar pick up and it aloud him to get some distorted shit going on.