Music Cafe • Another Nine Inch Nails cover. Sin.

I've posted a few of these cover recordings lately. Mostly for practice singing, etc. I always appreciate any feedback. It's always a learning process.

I gave a few attempts at this vocal. This last version is where I stopped thinking about it, etc. There is some tuning, but I didn't overthink each phrase/word.
Vocal chain is SM7b -> Heritage Elite 1073 -> Warm76 -> ProVLA -> Cubase and then DBX166 in the mix. (DBX has this cool peakstop control that clips in a neat way)
So it is quite compressed, yes.

The guitars are using my Zoom Driver pedal for the old school Zoom distortion. It always sounded NINy to me. I also put the guitar buss through a waveshaper for more top end grit.

The chorus bass is the Arturia Prophet VS. Not EXACTLY the same but pretty close. I'm guessing the original used this. (HW obviously)

I like to compress a few times in series instead of hitting one compressor hard. (see that vocal chain) For the mix buss, it's the Arturia Diode compressor, then into a Warm BussComp, then the Cubase Maximizer and then finally into that Cubase 'Raiser' for a tiny bit more. It's sitting somewhere around -9LUFS if I remember right. Pretty loud to me. Interesting that the waveform isn't a total log.

Maybe posting all the tech info is silly, but I enjoy reading this kind of stuff so...

https://soundcloud.com/kearley/sin

Statistics: Posted by Danno — Thu Jul 04, 2024 4:59 pm — Replies 6 — Views 78

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