ODavidIsCoolO Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 I know this is not the right forum but any question I ask here I get good answers too so thanks guys. But I am looking for a vocal effects pedal mainly just for distortion to make a voice kind of computerized sounding or just a little scratchy. I cant find anything thats not a multi effects pedal. I was thinking maybe I could get 2 adapters that change microphone cables into 1/4" cables then just run it through a regular guitar distortion pedal. Would this work? If so what pedal would be best. Please reply any info would help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegarehanman Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 I know on one of Incubus' albums, they wanted that type of sound at the begining of one of their tracks. What they did was sing into a hollow body jazz guitar with a mic. in it and ran the output from that directly into the board. My band needed a simular sound on one of our songs. We got one of those $10 POS pocket guitar amps w/ no knobs or buttons that is powered by a 9v battery. It distorts the signal in a way that you described, not in the rich way a good distortion/overdrive pedal does. We plugged a Shure SM58 into an adapter and then into the amp. We then recorded the amp with a Shure KSM44 condenser. Of course, you could get similar results with different mics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregP Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 A lot of those vocal effects have gone through plain ol' distortion, as garehan suggests. However, an overlooked 'effect' is simple EQ. A notch filter (which is just a type of EQ unless it's a 'resonant' filter) that completely removes a certain band of frequencies will give you that mechanical "radioed-in" sound. The small pocket amp has a similar effect because it's not capable of reproducing all the frequencies, PLUS it has a wee little speaker to shake up for 'speaker' distortion which sounds crappy (in a good way). Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODavidIsCoolO Posted July 25, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Ya but i was thinking of something for more live performances just to add some effcts to the vocals i checked guitar center and they want like $300 for the digitech one that has tons of effects but all i want is distortion they had nothing to offer me there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenderSurrender Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Would a standard el' cheapo stomp box not do ya? theres plenty of distortion boxes about... And plus the whole "mic up cheap pocket amp" can be used in live performances... we used it once to get some freaky ass effects when we opened up the preformance! ~~ Slain Angel ~~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marksound Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 Smokey Amp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegarehanman Posted July 25, 2005 Report Share Posted July 25, 2005 That's the exact amp. Smokey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Fruit Posted July 26, 2005 Report Share Posted July 26, 2005 Ya but i was thinking of something for more live performances just to add some effcts to the vocals i checked guitar center and they want like $300 for the digitech one that has tons of effects but all i want is distortion they had nothing to offer me there ← When we went live, and our singer wanted to have a distorted vocal, we used to use a russian Big Muff. Really raw sound. Then we started using an extra mic, going into a Marshall MG10 little amp and went to the desk with the headphone jack. Also, im sure if you talk to the sound guy nicely enough, he'll overload the vocal line on the desk. Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovekraft Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 If you're looking for cheesy telephone sounds, simply set a graphic EQ to max cut everything below 300 Hz and above 3Khz. A little post-EQ distortion will make things really retro, like an old radio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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