vocal distortion

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:59 pm

Do any of you guys know of any way to get the vocal effect Patton gets here without using some crazy mic'd gas mask setup?

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laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:16 pm

I don't know how HE does it but I do it by siging into an earphone from an old walkman going into a cheap analog delay box with the mix way dry and the gain way up.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:16 pm

its a flat mic that is supposed to be placed on things like tables or walls to pick up room vibrations.

buy that and velcro that shit onto a paper towel roll and you are done

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:17 pm

contact mic.
you can build one easy. check the internets for how tos.

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:25 pm

proper name is "boundary microphone"

http://www.music123.com/Search/Default. ... _go=Search

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:27 pm

robroe wrote:proper name is "boundary microphone"

http://www.music123.com/Search/Default. ... _go=Search

Whoa.. 200 for a prebuilt, or 10 bucks in parts for something that I want to sound shitty anyway. I think I'll build one....

Now the question is how do I package it so it looks good on stage... clearly the gas mask approach has been done already...

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:34 pm

hollow out a giant black dildo

that would be sweet. stick the mick on the end of the hole, speak into the other end

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:37 pm

robroe wrote:hollow out a giant black dildo

that would be sweet. stick the mick on the end of the hole, speak into the other end

fucking genius! homo-erotic... but genius!

I think Japanther does something similar but they use the existing microphone in telephone recievers.

kim · Post by **kim** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:39 pm

john dwyer sings into a telephone mic too

he's my nÂ°1 hero

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:43 pm

tape a contact mic onto the side of your bassist's face.
Scream directly at your bassist's face.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:45 pm

laterallateral wrote:tape a contact mic to the side of your bassist's head.
Scream at the side of your bassist's head.

I don't think Brian would appreciate that much... funny though.

Wonder what it would sound like if I just taped it to my throat.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:50 pm

It would sound awesome.
everybody could hear you swallowing your own spit and the little silent noises you're always making but are too faint for anyone to hear.

I think KKNull did something where he swallowed a contact mic and based an entire album on the recordings... Maybe that was Aube... I forget.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:54 pm

biological noise rock... I love it.

kim · Post by **kim** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:58 pm

outro was mic coming out the rear ?

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:07 pm

Yeah I have doubts as to wether that happened or not, really.
Sounds like something Aube would do, though.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:07 pm

bah, I'm man enough to bite his schtick... I'll stick it one of these.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/d ... mber=91208

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:08 pm

at least get a pig snout mask, or something...

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:09 pm

laterallateral wrote:It would sound awesome.
everybody could hear you swallowing your own spit and the little silent noises you're always making but are too faint for anyone to hear.

I think KKNull did something where he swallowed a contact mic and based an entire album on the recordings... Maybe that was Aube... I forget.

Wait a second... how was the mic transmitting? wireless? If not what was teh other end connected too... how does that work!?!?!

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:13 pm

I doubt that actually happened. I was just playing on the artist Aube's affinity for recording bodily sounds with contact mics.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:14 pm

A boundary microphone is also a PZM mic (pressure zone microphone), so that might help your search results. You can even take a PZM and stick the diaphram to like a big piece of sheet metal effectively turning it into a huge fucking microphone. kinda like when Frank Zappa laid his speaker cabinet on the ground so that it coupled better and made the whole floor resonate with the cab.