Vocal distortion FX

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Hi all

One of my bands is performing Lonely Boy by the Black Keys, in which the lead vocal has a distortion effect (imagine a megaphone effect, but at roughly 20% wet). Is something like this possible using the FX on my QU16? Anyone try anything similar.

Many thanks in advance.

Roy

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I think I would split his mic signal, dial in a megaphone eq setting on that second vox channel and then mix and match as needed.

Giga

3

Agree on the EQ. A good starting point is to raise your HPF to 400 and shelve off your highs down to between 3K and 3.4K. This is the “telephone bandwidth” EQ.

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Edit above:

Since you don’t have a LPF on the PEQ, use these settings instead along with the high shelf.

High shelf: set @ 10K and 15dB down

Add filter: width 3/4 @ 5.8K and 7.5dB down

That’s about as close as you can get.

5

As this is for an effect, you can also boost the middle range bit that you do want, a big “lump” somewhere around 1kHz seemed to work well for something similar I wanted.

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And as an add-on maybe compress the hell out of it and/or use a ridiculously high gainsetting to introduce some distortion ?

Giga

7

Thanks guys. Will be playing with these suggestions tomorrow. Have a week to get it refined.

Your help is very much appredicted.
Roy

8

I had a similar requirement and think I got some value out of adding a phaser effect (would need to fire up the desk and load the scene (I want an offline editor dammit)) as well…

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Thanks Bob. If you ever get 5 minutes to fire up the desk I’d be interested to know the settings.