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Old 07-12-2021, 04:54 PM   #1
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I'm going for what Metallica did in To Live is to Die. I've just tried using about six tracks but my vocals sounded not right. Does anybody know how to do this?
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Old 07-12-2021, 05:15 PM   #2
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It's almost all I ever do. Mostly, just compress the fuck out of it. Slow leveling compression then faster smashing compression then a little bit of saturation. Don't look for a bunch of booming bass from the voice. Cut out a bunch of low end before the dynamic processing. Emphasize the higher mids and lower highs for intelligibility before and/or after. And phase rotation. That's a secret weapon. An allpass filter or three in amongst the actual meet of the voice redistributes the energy just enough to make it more symmetrical so the later compression can work more efficiently and consistently.
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Old 07-13-2021, 10:00 AM   #3
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It's almost all I ever do. Mostly, just compress the fuck out of it. Slow leveling compression then faster smashing compression then a little bit of saturation. Don't look for a bunch of booming bass from the voice. Cut out a bunch of low end before the dynamic processing. Emphasize the higher mids and lower highs for intelligibility before and/or after. And phase rotation. That's a secret weapon. An allpass filter or three in amongst the actual meet of the voice redistributes the energy just enough to make it more symmetrical so the later compression can work more efficiently and consistently.
"Don't look for a bunch of booming bass from the voice."
-Yeah, my song is intended to be dark sounding-It's against white nationalism. My vocals are calm in this song.

I'll see what I can do.
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