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Post by Ward on Jan 26, 2023 13:11:11 GMT -6
Got to have a long chat with him once. He was delightful to speak to! I agree with that! I've never once exaggerated my dislike of an SM7b... but it makes a great live off the floor mic for guide vocal.  |
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Post by notneeson on Jan 26, 2023 14:44:35 GMT -6
an engineer with his skills could even make an SM7b sound great. LOL I had Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes in a few years ago, and we set up some fancy tube mic (forget which one, but something expensive LOL) and when he arrived, he sang into it and sounded good. Then he came in for a listen, and was like "do y'all have a sm7b and 1073?", which we do, and the mic amp was already right, so we swapped the fancy mic for the sm7b, he resang the part, and sounded FUCKING GREAT. Let it be noted that I am not anywhere nearly as good an engineer as Mr Swedien 🤣 I'd also mention that the older SM5b is amongst the best male vocal mics I've ever used. Whatever a great singer is comfortable with is likely to beat out just about anything, especially on a one day session where you are aiming for instant trust. |
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Post by winterland on Jan 26, 2023 14:59:00 GMT -6
To answer the question I would take a Distressor if there could be one one. It is more versatile. Opto mode for vox and many other things is very smooth. Not distorted.
If you want dirt of course it will do that too.
I love an 1176 also.
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Post by copperx on Jan 26, 2023 17:28:42 GMT -6
Distressor on drum bus can't be beat. It's all in the settings. Attack around 5 (which is around 5-8ms) and release around 1-2 (around 100ms) and 1.5:1 or 2:1 ratio. Snare hits should be around 4-6GR. Detector sidechain HP engaged so that the kick isn't really triggering the unit that much because kick will always make compressors pump too much. The kit will come alive like this and you'll need a LOT less individual compression on each drum, perhaps none at all (I stopped using kick compression and only occasionally snare compression now. Toms still get some to even their attacks out). Folks typically try to squash drum bus with a high ratio (I did for a long time) and it never sounds right. Lower ratio but a bit more GR sounds much better, gets a bit more "round" sounding and a lot less of that crazy TTT-attack-y sound. I'd love to hear a comparison of the Distressor in that capacity vs a pair of 1176s or an 1178. |
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Post by smashlord on Feb 5, 2023 23:22:18 GMT -6
Distressors are great tools, but I rarely find they are my first choice on anything.....mayyyyyybe snare, but thats only because I have one Compex that does not leave drum bus! 1176 OTOH is first call for vocals, aggressive rock bass, finger picked acoustic, among other things.
As someone else here stated, SM7B-1073-Distressor is a fantastic aggressive rock vocal chain.
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