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Old 6th December 2011   #115
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Originally Posted by DoMD View Post
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.
This is an old thread so presumably the problem has been dealt with. But I'm thinking a drunken Leonard Cohen dueting with Rob Zombie might be pretty cool. I'd use a Flea 47 into a Nevish preamp with an LA2A. Go for big proximity and make sure you record the first take.

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