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Originally Posted by jdnpdi  Hey Butch,
Thanks for taking the time to answer our questions. How did you recording Corgan's vocals on the CD. The just seem to...well work. Was there a weird technique used? Mics? Effects?
Thanks again for indulging us! |
Signal To Noise: The Sonic Diary Of The Smashing Pumpkins Vig didn’t much care for the midrange in Corgan’s voice, so to soften that particular timbre he used a Shure SM7 (generally regarded as a more “open”-sounding mic when its rolloff and boost features are engaged simultaneously) through an API preamp and a Summit TLA-100 Tube Limiter, all fed back into Corgan’s headphones. Like everything else, vocal takes were abundant, with Corgan sometimes singing for eight hours at a time to make sure his tracks were pitch perfect.
That said, I also wonder to what extent they were doubled/stacked, what verb/delay, how they were panned, etc.