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  • Started 8 months ago by Eric Christian
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  1. Eric Christian

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    I've got a pretty good harsh aggrotech vocal patch going using the pitch shifters but it doesn't quite have that witch in the bell tower sound like Suicide Commando etc. Anyone got some good patch settings for this processor to really nail that sound? Its very similar to the SE-50 so patches on that unit would probably work as well.

    Posted 8 months ago #

  2. awesomecakes

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    I must have read it like a hundred times on the old side-line forum.

    http://www.side-line.com/forum/threads.php?id=40553_0_34_0_C

    http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=206062

    Never used the unit, but patch 112 (or whatever the pitch shifter is on the SE-70) set to +2 +1 -1 -2, is apparently how to get the sound you're after

    Posted 8 months ago #

  3. Eric Christian

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    Yeah, I read those quite some time ago when I got the processor but it doesn't quite nail it. Maybe there is some additional processing going on. It almost sounds like some distortion and a bit of reverb but its real easy to get carried away with those. This is for recording and live as well.

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  4. awesomecakes

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    Well it isn't at all uncommon to have reverb on a studio vocal, but in a live situation you'd want to use it sparingly if at all. And I'd say it's likely they'd have a layer of the vocal that's distorted mixed in there somewhere. Easy to do in the studio, would probably require more gear for live though

    Posted 8 months ago #

  5. awesomecakes

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    But of course it could always come down to the se50 and the se 70 having a different pitch shifting algorithm

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  6. YADE

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    @Awesomecakes...the SE-70 does afaik not have the 4 band pitch shifter...
    generally I would not recommend to create the distortion by pitch-shifting...

    I would do most with my voice..the rest with a filterbank and a bitcrusher...thus you get the harsh but still clearly understandable vocals..not like SC where they cover the whole mix imho...

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  7. Eric Christian

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    @YADE "the SE-70 does afaik not have the 4 band pitch shifter..."

    Actually it has 8 on patch 118, 4 on each stereo channel. What would be a good hardware filterbank and bitcrusher that I could gig with?

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  8. YADE

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    I do my live vocals with an OTO Biscuit....it is hooked up as a send effect and my soundguy then can thus adjust the level of crushed-distorted vs growling, but undistorted vocals... it also offers a very nice sounding, non-resonant filter with various types....and it is half-rack, means fits flight luggage :-)

    I think i saw in my SE-70 also a 12 Band...
    if you do not want to spend money, you can simply double the bands, means 118 as you said with +1 +1 +2 +2 -1 -1 -2 -2 but I would check this first not to end in an un-understandable wobbling...

    imho a very "good" example how not to do it is Schallfaktor's "end of love"...dunno what they changed to their old stuff..but the old tracks' vocals sounded "SC like"..where the end of love vocals sound like a smurf on LSD...

    Posted 8 months ago #

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