Distorted slapback trick

Instead of distorting the vocal directly, try distorting a slapback delay. This helps preserve intelligibility of the vocal track. The distorted delay doesn’t pull the vocal back as much as a clean delay would either.1

  1. Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio pg. 299 ↩

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