Good grief. If I new it would get so much attenshun I would have mispelt in all my posts!! 

I'm not interested in prolonging the discussion but you do all realise that the spelling error is probably the least important grammatical error in this thread (conversational tenor, sentence structure, caps, repeated misuse of ellipses) but hey we're on an internet forum - its supposed to be like this!!

Only reason for my post is just to mention that if you anyone is looking to exercise their knowledge please feel free to review my songs. Not sure if there is much to say about them but it's got to be more interesting than this! 

BTW the original thread was interesting before it was sidetracked. As I am very inexperienced as a vocalist and at recording I do tend to spread the effects on my vocals (recording in a small carpeted room) but still tend to lose them in the mix. Combination of singing skill, recording technique and poor mastering.

Oh hey, Avi.  you typo'd "and" as "an".  Notice that it's not technically a misspelling, just a grammar error.  And it's probably due to geographical differences.  You know.  Up north that happens sometimes.

i'm sorry, guys.. it's just funny to me somehow... I go on 1 weeks leaves at random, and I come back to this :P

I love you guys.  I never want to leave, even if it hurts me sometimes. 

what the heck. Stop spamming...



I use echo effects to help with my shitty vox.

fair enough  

I used to put on some heavy effects, particularly on an early version of Daeljan's The Blue Room that I did vocals for.  haha... my goodness, they were terrible.  In the end, we never uploaded the mix (it was rough anyway) and then I left for Canada for those 2 years, and I didn't end up doing much with music for that time.  (as follow up to that little short story, Daeljin later posted a collab between himself and JBP, still titled The Blue Room, found here.)

Echo effects aren't so bad.. i tend to keep a safe distance from them, so that I never end up like a crowd of chatter boxes in concert hall ( ).  it's just not my style...

Certainly there are people who use effects too frequently and heavily, but I can't say that (going back to the original post on this thread) that it means that we're all better for not using such effects.  They have their place.  What Avi said is probably the most prominent factor in my own use of effects, in that I don't have a professionally built studio that has great acoustics!

Just thought I'd put in my .02

Can 'em folks. Effects are pretty much a thing of the past, unless purple microdot makes a comeback. My faults years ago were chorus and delay. I used 'em on everything. These days, I personally like the dry sound for vocals. It seemed everyone started that awhile back. The one that got me going on that was believe it or not, Elton on his "Songs From The West Coast" project. Now I know quite a few of you here may not be fans, but if you don't know the song, check it out. It's engineering beauty. I heard "I Want Love" and the production sent me hibernating into the studio for a month. Reverb and delay are just getting so tired. Isn't it funny how the coolest thing could turn out to be "nothing?" Not to say that effects aren't a good thing, but if you DO choose to use them, use them SPARINGLY. Just personal preference. Lately, my favorite vocal effects are compression and EQ. I believe that when effects were created, it was just a quick and easy way to smooth over a bad performance. Reverb was invented by Jim Morrison. Not really...Back to my cave now.

Chauvette

I posted a new song on here called “Angel”.  It was recorded with totally dry vocals.  Can I say I really like dry better?  I really could not tell you.

almost every song I hear from old ones to new ones have some kind of effects or vocal work done to them.  I am not just talking about delay,reverb and chorus,  you also have double tracking, or as of recent, some pop singers are doing as many as 8 takes per phrase, then blending them down  to sound like one.... also copy and pasting with time offsets and different eq settings is widely done....

autotune seems to be used also for vocal fixes it is being used quite often now in newer recordings.. 

clipping with thin eq or  what is some time referred to as AM radio effect.  tons of newer artist use this one.

imho i feel it should be up to whoever is doing the recordings.   whatever you prefer, sometimes experimenting with different things can bring some cool music and sounds out of your recordings.

mmm yes plead guilty to that one, 4 vocal Running 1  dry as a bone mixed .75% gain  with 1 duplicate track , high pass eq also dry but  with  delay through an  aux channel usually mono, with automation , pull it back then push when space needed.
Steering away from verbs apart from sax #flute.
Mastering with over all ambient light verb just to smooth & frost edges.
Limiter .
Whats compression????
good thread