Moore's vocals

[arthur42]

Hey all you Kev-heads.

Here's a question for you home recording folks. How do you get Kevin's vocals in the studio? I've run my voice through so many processors and I just simply can't get that slight crunch without it sounding trashy. For instance, on the awesome song Home Was Good.

Here's what I hear: compressor, noise gate, some sort of EQ stuff? And I think maybe some sort of overdriven tube preamp? Except when I crank my TubeMP up it just sounds like TRASH on vocals.

Is it hopeless?

[Mebert78]

Wow. That's a pretty unique question. It's a little over my head, I'm not sure. I just know that engineer Phil Magnotti said in an interview last year that they would always try to reproduce Kevin's vocals in the studio, but it never worked. So they would use the vocals tracks he had prepared ahead of time. Not sure sure how it's done. On songs like "Get Back In the Car" and "Subway," he used a vocodor but no idea about "Home Was Good." I think it does sound cool though.

[arthur42]

Yeah, I recognize the vocoder. Another cool song with vocoder is Closer by Anathema (a band I've really gotten into lately). Hmm, maybe Kevin's recording techniques are just a mystery!

[wiche]

Jan 13, 2010 8:22:14 GMT -5 arthur42 said:

Yeah, I recognize the vocoder. Another cool song with vocoder is Closer by Anathema (a band I've really gotten into lately). Hmm, maybe Kevin's recording techniques are just a mystery!

everything around him is a mystery! that's his essence!