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Originally Posted by decibike 
And you might want to try some parallel distortion; Run recorded track trough the pedal. Line up the samples of the distorted version so there's no phase issue. At mixdown; Add a bit of the distorted track to the clean track. I often prefer this method on vox. Distortion pedals are great but they do take away a lot of low end or turn your vox / lyrics into a big pile of mud. |
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i prefer this approach whenever i go for dirt/gritt, be it synths or beatboxes. esp its worthwhile with vocals. also, having pre- and post- eq to a distortion or fuzz box goes a long way in avoiding mud, and having just the right ratio btwn inteligibility and dirt. u can then EQ the clean vocal with some hp/lp filters to make it fit better with the processed one, and just barely sneak it under.
for synths, i like overdriving devices that weren't intented for that: input to EHX memoryman pedal, input to fireface hi-z (input1). even AD converters. its just awesome. sometimes this cna be more interesting than full out distortion/od pedals.