Flo Rida's Vocal Chain on 'Low'

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Here is something the hip hop guys may be interested in... Flo Rida's vocal chain on the DJ Montay production of 'Low". The chain is as described in SOS's interview with Fabian Marasciullo by Paul Tingen:

Empirical Labs distressors AGAIN. And HA!!! Dolby...
 
i actually wish i could understand your laugh!?

so whats the funny?
 
Nice. I've read the interview, but I forgot (or didn't have the knowledge to understand at the time) what the Neve 33609 or Dolby 740 are.

Distressor's ALWAYS seem to pop up in SOS interviews... like 9 times outta 10. Well, the interviews I bother reading anyway. Some interviews I don't read because I don't know the original music they are discussing. I guess I should go back through my catalogue and find the songs and then re-read the magazine interview.
 
J Cutz said:
Distressor's ALWAYS seem to pop up in SOS interviews...
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Its not only interviews... those damn things are requested all over. The studio I use here in NYC has a pair. And its tough to get the room they are in sometimes.
 
wow thats an awful lot of processing.

I do get confused by the amount of times people comment 'less is more'

and 'any stage of processing has the potential to add noise/distortion artifacs etc'

Yet in many of these interviews there is a HUGE processing chain.

I take it alot of these are for colouration and would just be kissing the signal?

I do see the renaissance stuff gets used alot in the interviews by sos, great plug-ins.
 
what is this renassance plug in??>?

can i t be used on logic or is this some PT things?
 
 
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wow thats an awful lot of processing. I take it alot of these are for colouration and would just be kissing the signal?
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Its a lot of processors but as you suggested not really much processing. My typical vocal chain probably looks just as hefty (minus the distressors and dolby) but I swear, I am using primarily EQ and Delay.
 
HakimCallier said:
old-school. very nice. its not everyday you hear spectral processors mentioned in hip hop mixes. at least not to my knowledge.
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On aggressive vocals it's almost always a Distressor or 1176. Very, very common. Dre is known for using them on his drums.

=Angelo= said:
wow thats an awful lot of processing.
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It's really not that much. It's probably distressor and what ever on vocals to the mixing desk when recording. Then you have stacks of vocals and sends, and busses. It's like two effects per "channel/aux/send".
 
Morning_Star said:
On aggressive vocals it's almost always a Distressor or 1176. Very, very common.
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It was the Dolby 740 that I was referring to, not the distressors. The emphasis on "AGAIN" in my comment implies the constant and "very common" use of distressors and particularly Empirical Labs' flavor of distressor.

Misunderstanding, no biggie. But what are your thoughts on the Dolby unit?
 
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It's really not that much. It's probably distressor and what ever on vocals to the mixing desk when recording. Then you have stacks of vocals and sends, and busses. It's like two effects per "channel/aux/send".


Yes thinking of it like that it isnt many at all, if that is across all the vocal tracks.

I was kind of thinking of all the bulleted processors as the chain from start to finish, but of course if this is split over all the parts then it is more than reasonable.
 
I've never used the dolby. I would like to check it out though. I would much rather know the vocal chain for the last album, R.O.O.T.S. The vocal mixes are insane.
 
J Cutz said:
Nice. I've read the interview, but I forgot (or didn't have the knowledge to understand at the time) what the Neve 33609 or Dolby 740 are.
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33609=bus compressor sent by God to save us from sin
 
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