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Brassplyer wrote:
Chicago's "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" Is the basic ambience of the lead vocal achieved largely by being in a very dead, anechoic booth?
What would you do to achieve this kind of sound?
Thanks
https://youtu.be/7uy0ldI_1HA
I don't know if you can tell from the youtube, but on the record it sounds
like it's a big studio with close-miking. You can hear a little of the
ambience, but what you don't hear are any close-in reflections that make
things boxy.
A lot of the sound here is from the vocalist himself... he's got a little
fry in there, singing very very loud, probably with the microphone up high
to cause him to force his neck up high.
Listen to how the room sounds on the first "As I was walking down the street
one day." It's not dead at all, it's a great room.
Notice also how everything else except for the horns are equalized to fit
around the vocals. The piano is almost muffled after the introduction
ends. Some of what makes the vocal come across isn't actually part of the
vocal at all but how the vocal fits into the rest of the mix. The brass
steps all over everything but that's the point...
--scott
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