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Old 10th June 2007   #47
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So I have this, erm .. friend ... yeah, and he's got a real lousy voice. Think Leonard Cohen doing a drunken duet with Rob Zombie. What would you put between him and the harddrive to make this abomination tolerable to an audience? Just your first instinct for a mic/pre/comp/eq chain. Got about a $5K budget. Not looking for miracles from any magic box, just to start with some good tools to try and polish this particular turd.
Is this for YOU then?

5K can buy a lot of singing lessons. That's your best investment, and the only wise choice. Barring wisdom, I'd go with the heavy metal pedal idea. Distort the piss out of it. You can do a lot with Melodyne, but it's not gonna sound right if it's way out of the ballpark to begin with. This is experience talking...
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