Hey everybody welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing.
I'm continuing a really fun series and I'm taking isolated vocal tracks, I'm doing an analysis,
a tutorial and also a recording breakdown on how this stuff was done, to help you guys understand it
so you guys can do this on your own okay. Before we get started if you wouldn't mind, please like and
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other singers over there, all talking about how to do these kinds of things okay. So now I want to
talk about Phil Anselmo and I want to talk about Pantera and the song "Walk". That's what we're going
to do we're going to do Pantera "walk" and to me, again I'm not trying to stereotype this stuff but
to me, a lot of growl sounds very similar okay and it's not that some people can't get gnarlier than
the other guy, and I think the whole goal is just that is to sound, who can sound the gnarliest, who
can growl the gnarliest sound, the most demonic or evil or whatever right, powerful whatever that is.
So with that said I want to show you the original recording, we're going to do a little
takedown of it. I'm not going to necessarily go into the details on how to sing like Phil
because it's a pretty dangerous sound. Now I do have a couple videos
out, I will put them in the description, how to sing with distortion safely and I don't want to
cover that here because I think I would do you a disservice if I try to teach you how to sing (sounds)
you know just like really gnarly, because you could hurt yourself and I really don't want that,
but I do want to show you that after you've done my singing course, or after you've done
my tutorials on distortion and growl and you've got it recorded, I want to show you,
how to make it even bigger okay. I know I'm being silly but I'm really going to show you that.
Again I have a lot of recording experience and I think you're going to find this fascinating
Let's first listen to the solo isolated vocal track, so I'm going to come over here like this
and I've got, just a single vocal up right now. So we're going to take a listen to that first,
then I'm going to add the track to it, we're going to listen to that and then I'm going to show you
how we, how he could have made it even bigger. Check it out, here we go.
Now did you notice there
was an edit where you know he didn't sing that contiguously, I know he does it live but listen to
it again and (sings) like you, they, you can hear a crossfade of another vocal coming in. So it wasn't a contiguous
phrase that he sang or growled okay.
See now it's almost like he is trying to sing a little bit but (sings)
right he's kind of got that sing-songy part but he's so growly on it that he's just like
razor blades to the throat to kind of give you that sound right, but I'm going to show you
how I can even take this kind of, to me it's a smaller sound and to me it's not that big of
a growl there's, a lot of guys that growl pretty heavy. Now Phil does a lot of growl so don't get
me wrong but, I'm just going to show you what we can do to this sound that's going to blow your mind
right. So stick around. Hold on, check it out.
Okay now I played it all the way to there because I wanted to get to that low vocal.
So I'm going to tell you some tricks that I've done okay and, it's going to really trip you out
and it's so easy to do, you're going to go I can't believe we didn't think of this before.
TThe first thing is he could have sung that down an octave and he could have matched it as, as you
know, as doing it in unison down an octave. I took the quick easy route, I just grabbed the vocal
and I detuned it down 12 steps to one octave down lower alright. Now it doesn't, it sounds a little
more robotic and it's not, as articulate as this, but I'm not going to use it so loud in the
mix that that's going to matter so much, it's just to give us our fatness in the low end. That's the
first thing I'm going to do. The second thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take his lead vocal, and I've
already done it actually, I've taken his lead vocal and I just detuned his lead vocal up a little bit
by about two cents okay, three cents so I detune it and then I offset it about,
almost a full frame like 0.7 of a full frame. I detune it and I panned it hard, almost hard
left. I panned it about nine, at about nine o'clock okay and, if you're looking at panning.
So I panned it about nine o'clock and then I took the same vocal and I detuned it lower,
so one is detuned above, one is lower. I detuned that about five cents okay, so it's quite a bit
detuned and I put that down around three o'clock. So it's not a hard pan, it's kind of like this okay.
So you have the vocals in the center and this. So I'm gonna just add those two in a minute, I'm, hang
in there. I want you to hear what this sounds like with the track before I do all this stuff. I'm just
giving you a preview of coming attractions. Then I'm going to take the octave that I
have down and I'm going to do the exact same thing, I'm going to detune it up a little bit,
pan it to the left, detune it down to the right, pan it to the right and I'm going to add a little
bit of room reverb, a little bit of haul reverb and just a little delay, not a lot because I don't want
it to get too sloshy and mushy you know, too, indistinguishable. I want it to be really powerful.
The other thing that I did, which is gonna sound trippy is, I took the same lead vocal and I
smashed the crap at it with a compressor, so that it's just, straight up in your face.
So it's like really, really loud, and you can tell there's a lot of dynamic range believe it or not,
in his vocal, because you could see all the dips in the track. I don't know if you guys
can see that or not hopefully Bob, I don't know, I got a guy that's helping me edit this,
and so I've got another track you could see here, where it's just balls out okay so I, I, and
the reason I did that was, so that I don't have it so loud but so when his volume dips, it
doesn't get kind of weak in the track, it stays real in your face and really prominent. So I do
have the original track, I want the nuance of what he's doing, but then I want the other one to go (sounds)
just like, full tilt, almost distorted, full-on okay. So I've got all this working for me but
I want to play just the vocal we just did, with the instrumental track alone so you can hear it.
Then what I'm going to do is I'm going to play it with all the effects I added to it so you can hear
how big it got, and then II'm gonna play it with the track so you can hear it in the track and
I'll try to A B it back and forth, with just the single vocal alone and then my effect, and back and
forth so we can A B and see how I did okay. Again so the goal with a lot of this stuff is to make
it big and gnarly, the bigger and the gnarlier the better. So here it is, just the vocal with the track,
original track. Check it out.
Okay there's that. Now here's with my effect so I'm going to bring up all my effects, and I'm
going to take out the track for a minute and I'm even going to add the low vocal so you're
going to hear it everything with the low vocal and all the effects I just added. Check this out.
Okay here again is it without, this is without the, without any effect. This is just the solo.
vocal alone, check it out.
Now listen to this alone again, it's pretty trippy
when you see how big this is. Here's my effected version.
Okay so I'm gonna do this one more time. Check this out. Here's the solo vocal, you got to really check
this out because this is like how, I mean, to me this is everything for this kind of sound so, bear
with me, there's a lot of, I got a lot of tracks running here. Here's the solo vocal again, whoops.
Here it is right here.
And here's with my effects.
No track just the effects.
Now let's get to the low parts where he does the octave and
then I got an octave even lower. Check this out.
Check this out now here, check it out, listen,
Here it is alone without the effect. Check this out. It sounds so whimpy by comparison to me.
And here's the other lower part.
So let's hear that chorus again all by itself.
Sorry I had a little low end on.
Anyway guys hopefully this was advantageous for you record monsters
out there who like the stuff and want to make yourself sound gnarly. Check out my next video.