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Hey guys just a quick question.
How do I achieve those ghostly vocals?

I've tried chopping, reverb, detuning, and low pass filter's, but I still can't seem to get them quite where I like them.
Any tips?

Here's a couple tunes on what i'm looking to achieve.



Soundcloud

& I won't post any Burial tunes, because you should know already what i'm looking for

Anything help is appreciated

Its definitely just a case of low passing and reverb/delay with trial and error.
Pitching samples down can definitely create a ghostly feel, or maybe try reversing the vox's reverb

Maybe try sending the vocal and drenching it in reverb then putting a delay on the verb. Also try: reverse vocal sample, drench in reverb, bounce, reverse back....leads to the vocal with reversed verb. Also playing with the pitch of the sample helps out

What stranger said lol

100% wet vocal with a digital delay-> huge room reverb layered with the original vocals really really low, pitch it all down and eq to taste.

viberous wrote:Maybe try sending the vocal and drenching it in reverb then putting a delay on the verb. Also try: reverse vocal sample, drench in reverb, bounce, reverse back....leads to the vocal with reversed verb. Also playing with the pitch of the sample helps out

This pretty much hits the nail on the head... using pre-verb instead of post-verb you can turn down the fader on the original and you only get the reverb which is nice too.

Sweet cheers for all the help so far
Been working and these vocals for a couple nu tunes, but they have been nothing but trouble for me

Low pass filtering, a lot of reverb with long decay, stereo delay with different timings on each side. Also, having more wet signal than dry on the reverb helps a lot sometimes.

I also like to just let a vocal loop for a while sometimes and tweak all the parameters on all the effects a tiny bit until it sounds just right to me.

Hope that helps

also, make sure your delay is after your reverb in the effects chain.

kid simple wrote:Low pass filtering, a lot of reverb with long decay, stereo delay with different timings on each side. Also, having more wet signal than dry on the reverb helps a lot sometimes.

I also like to just let a vocal loop for a while sometimes and tweak all the parameters on all the effects a tiny bit until it sounds just right to me.

Hope that helps

straight from the source
Cheers man

Gurnumsbug wrote:

MY FAVORITE TUNE OF ALL TIME

Anyways, EQ and reverb are the ones. The core of it at least - play around with an exciter (possibly), maybe some other effects used tastefully, but yeah reverb and EQ are the core imo

bit of flanger can have a nice effect too

fun fact- i read somewhere that all of lung- afterlife is synthesised even the "vocals"

95% sure this was true

most of the time this is done by trying to create an a capella from a bootleg.

lots of narrow cuts in the freq range to remove things like snares and other instruments.

double or triple the filtered sample up, then put different length verbs and delays on each copy.

bandpassing + different length reverb and delay = ghostly vocals.

1. Snip vocal slices, save.
2. Insert in sampler.
3. Turn knobs, use envelopes and stuff
4. Reverb, delay