reverend_kyle wrote:This is my band's first recording ever, we used a karaoke machine which oddly enough added some distortion.
It will have a vocal processor with extensive effects. The effects should change according to the song.
If you have a less expensive unit and don't have a song selected I'm not sure what effects are choosen or if you can change them.
Some of the real high end units will actually change the tones of a voice to match the artist that recorded the version of the song you are performing.
That's partly why sometimes you will have a person that gets real good at singing Karaoke yet be pretty bad at singing without the machine.
The higher end ones will sometimes also be adjustable, so the person running it can remove some of the affects to let a better singer's natural tones come through.
This is also why recording artists seek out particular engineers to record them. Once you have a rough CD completed it can take weeks or in the case of one Def Leopard CD years to have effects added.
Sometimes you have a band use someone particular and they end up sounding a lot like other bands recorded by that person.
The effects on that song work pretty good with it. Kind of wolf mother sounding to me, a modern take (partialy digital) on the seventies natural tubes being overdriven distortion, which partially developed from guys turning up their guitar amps too loud.
